Well, you know, I never got to bat in the major leagues. I'd have liked to have had that chance, just once, to stare down a big-league pitcher. Stare him down and then just as he goes into his windup... wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't.

— Moonlight Graham (Burt Lancaster)

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

You can hear this line at 01:07:24.899 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Well, you know, I never got to bat in the major leagues. I'd have liked to have had that chance, just once, to stare down a big-league pitcher. Stare him down and then just as he goes into his windup... wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't.

- The chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes just to look at it, to feel the tingle in your arms as you connect with the ball, run the bases, stretch a double into a triple and flop face first into third, wrap your arms around the bag.

- That's my wish, Ray Kinsella. That's my wish. Is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?

- What would you say if I said yes?

- I think I'd actually believe you.

- Well sir, there's a place where things like that happen and if you want to go, I can take you.

[...]

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