- Tami Taylor: [to Eric] Can I help you make the decision?
- Eric Taylor: Sure, go ahead. Make the decision. What's your decision? Make the call.
- Tami Taylor: Start Saracen.
- Eric Taylor: Start Saracen? I cannot start Matt Saracen.
- Tami Taylor: Start Voodoo.
- Eric Taylor: I don't want to start Voodoo.
- Tami Taylor: Start me.
- Eric Taylor: [laughs] I would love to start you.
- Ray 'Voodoo' Tatum: I'm not here to make friends. This ain't my home. This ain't my school. It never will be.
- Eric Taylor: Yeah?
- Ray 'Voodoo' Tatum: I don't like the food here, the music, the weather. I can definitely do without everybody going on and on about the great state of Texas. I'm here to get noticed, get recruited and get my ass to LSU. And you? You just trying to scrape by, trying to win some games, keep your job. You and me are an arranged marriage. Nothing more. Now you seen what I can do. You wanna start Saracen, you go right ahead.
- Tyra Collette: Just a bunch of overheated jocks too dumb to know they have no future, fighting over a game that has no meaning in a town from which there is no escape.
- Lyla Garrity: Tim, just don't do this okay?
- Tim Riggins: Do what?
- Lyla Garrity: Pretend that you're interested in my schoolwork. It's obvious that you're not, that you're just trying to...
- Tim Riggins: Have a conversation, Lyla? Yeah, I thought we may want to try and do that sometime.
- Lyla Garrity: Okay, what do you want to talk about, Tim? The fact that you're sleeping with your paralyzed best friend's girlfriend. Is that what you want to talk about, Tim? No, I don't think we're going to be doing a lot of talking.
- Eric Taylor: [to Julie] You know what I heard once? I heard that a daughter is supposed to be a comfort and a blessing to her father.
- Julie Taylor: Texas isn't even a state. Technically it's a Republic. It be nice to live somewhere that's actually a part of this planet.
- Mac McGill: You think I want your job, right? Well, you're damn right I do 'cause the way I see it you're sitting in my chair. But I'll never do anything to hurt these kids. I want to win just like you do. These are my boys too, so you pull it together, got me?
- Brian 'Smash' Williams: Hey! Hey! Hey! It's going down tonight! The Panthers ain't even began to fight! Look, they wanna trash our locker room, we fitting to hit them with a sonic boom! The Panthers gonna have the last laugh 'cause we breaking our foot up in they...