I refuse to play left field for a sinking ship.
3 seconds sound clip from the Charlie Brown's All Stars! movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:07:02.472 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- I quit. I refuse to play anymore on a team that never wins.
- Don't quit, Violet. Please. We need you. We need to stick together as a team.
- After all, it's not the winning that counts. The fun is in the playing. Oh, brother.
- I refuse to play left field for a sinking ship.
- We're through with baseball. We're going to enjoy summer like the other kids.
- I'm sorry, Charlie Brown, but I guess I'll quit too.
- With you, it's different. I think you get sort of a neurotic pleasure out of losing all the time.
- That's all I need, Little League psychiatry.
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