Back then I thought, Well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

— Moonlight Graham (Burt Lancaster)

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6 seconds sound clip from the Field of Dreams (1989) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:06:40.148 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I knew they'd send me back down.

- I couldn't bear the thought of another year in the minors. So I decided to hang them up.

- Go on, sit down.

- Thank you.

- So what was that like?

- It was like coming this close to your dreams, and then watch them brush past you, like a stranger in a crowd.

- At the time, you don't think much of it. You know, we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening.

- Back then I thought, Well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

- And now, Ray Kinsella, I want to ask you a question.

- What's so interesting about half an inning that would make you come all the way from Iowa to talk to me about it 50 years after it happened?

- I didn't really know till just now, but I think it's to ask you if you could do anything you wanted, if you could have... a wish?

- And you're the kind of a man who could grant me that wish?

[...]

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