By the time I was 10, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage. So when I was 14, I started to refuse.

Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner)

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

You can hear this line at 01:12:52.193 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Well, this is your lucky day, kid. We're going some place kind of like that.

- All right.

- I'm Ray Kinsella. This is Terence Mann.

- Hi. I'm Archie Graham.

- You know, it's funny the way you describe towns, you know, finding you a job so that you could play on their team. They haven't done that for years. My dad did that for a while, but that was in the '20s.

- What happened to your father?

- He never made it as a ballplayer, so he tried to get his son to make it for him.

- By the time I was 10, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage. So when I was 14, I started to refuse.

- Can you believe that? American boy refusing to have a catch with his father?

- Why 14?- That's when I read The Boat Rocker by Terence Mann.

- Oh, God. I never played catch with him again.

- You see, that's the kind of crap people always try to lay on me.

- It's not my fault you didn't play catch with your father.

- I know.

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