“- Thaddeus Clark: Richard, if you do this, you will fail. You... will... fail! And mark my works, you'll come crawling back here with your tail between your legs!
- Richard Clark: You're wrong, father. I'm gonna succeed at Barry High School. And, I have no intention of ever crawling back here with anything between my legs!”
John Neville - Thaddeus Clark
Jon Lovitz - Richard Clark

“Great, Angela, my friend the do-gooder. Honestly, you make me feel like I should go to church and confess or something.”
Margaret Langrick - Jill Anderson

“Who came up with this ridiculous concept anyway? Resolve your entire life in one bold stroke? What if I fail? And I will. I'll fail. I'm telling you. I always fail. Then my whole life will be a complete failure.”
Charles Grodin - Harrison Winslow

“A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning he doesn't even try.”
Alan Arkin - Grandpa Edwin Hoover

“Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.”

Sam Neill - Cliff Buxton