- Hazel Haskett: What does your dad do?
- Sawyer Nelson: I don't know. He left like 5 years ago. We don't know where he is. He never calls, never writes.
- Hazel Haskett: Oh.
- Sawyer Nelson: So what does your mom do?
- Hazel Haskett: She died when I was 7. Never calls, never writes.
- [smiles]
- Philip J. Hordern: [After looking at Winter's new trainers and training area] I'll fund your whole operation, as long as you run the place, "your way"
- Lorraine Nelson: Sawyer... I don't know what to say
- Sawyer Nelson: Please mom, I'll do extra class credit next year, I"ll write a essay, I'll do anything you want
- Lorraine Nelson: I believe you... I get... I get this... I mean, it's... it's amazing
- [Sawyer pleading to his mom]
- Lorraine Nelson: I'll talk to Mr. Doyle
- Sawyer Nelson: YES, I love you... Thank you
- Lorraine Nelson: You're welcome
- [Sawyer runs to Hazel]
- Sawyer Nelson: Hazel, she said, "yes"
- Hazel Haskett: Yes!
- [They high-five each other]
- Lorraine Nelson: I am seeing something that a mother, a teacher, dreams of seeing: a turned-on kid. He is so engaged--and it's not with a Game Boy. It's with something that is alive and beautiful and real.