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.

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- 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.

- 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?

- I don't know. I'm just asking.

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Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money. It was the game, the sounds, the smells.

I'd wake up at night with the smell of the ballpark in my nose, with the cool of the grass on my feet, the thrill of the grass.

But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game. It's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.

Look, I can't tell you the secret of life, and I don't have any answers for you.

Field of Dreams (1989) Sound Clip

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Actors: Kevin Costner (Ray Kinsella), James Earl Jones (Terence Mann), Ray Liotta (Shoeless Joe Jackson), Burt Lancaster (Moonlight Graham), Amy Madigan (Annie Kinsella), Gaby Hoffmann (Karin Kinsella)

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