Field of Dreams1989

Dr. Graham:
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 a half an inning that would make you come all the way from Iowa to talk to me about it 50 years after it happened?

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

Dr. Graham:
And that you're the kind of a man who could grant me that wish?

Ray Kinsella:
I don't know. I'm just asking.

Dr. Graham:
Well, you know, I-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. To stare him down, then just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't. That's what I wish for. 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 arm as you connect with the ball. To 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. And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?

Ray Kinsella:
What would you say if I said yes?

Dr. Graham:
I think I'd actually believe you.

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

Dr. Graham:
This is my most special place in all the world, Ray. Once a place touches you like this, the wind never blows so cold again. You feel for it, like it was your child. I can't leave Chisholm.

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Ray Kinsella:
Fifty years ago, for five minutes you came within... y-you came this close. It would kill some men to get so close to their dream and not touch it. God, they'd consider it a tragedy.

Dr. Graham:
Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes... now that would have been a tragedy.