- [about the Gray Ghost's theme restaurant]
- Babs Grey: I'm running this place. I'm good at it. Did anybody ever think I was good at anything? I sure didn't.
- Babs Grey: [watching Gavin's first pro game] It's so rough!
- Player's Wife #1: Yep, pro's a different game, honey. Not much rah-rah up here. Not like when you were homecoming queen back in... where was it?
- Babs Grey: Louisiana. I was Magnolia Queen.
- Player's Wife #2: Most of us were the queen of something. Now? We're just players' wives.
- Babs Grey: You once asked for his name for a chain of drive-ins.
- Narvel Blue: Too late for that now.
- Babs Grey: Then will you give me a job?
- Narvel Blue: I got a hundred black men need jobs! Black women, too. Why should I give you one?
- Babs Grey: Because you need white faces.
- [Gavin and Narvel are preparing to race each other down the street]
- Narvel Blue: Look here, Ghost. You ain't got nothing to gain by this. I beat you, word gets out the Grey Ghost got whupped by a nigger. You beat me, they'll just say the Ghost beat some nigger just like he beats everybody else.
- Gavin Grey: I ain't doin' it for what people say, Blue. Let's race.