Cheers1982

[after Thompkins steals Norm's proposal and the Board of Directors shoots it down]

Diane Chambers:
Now, Norman, please. Now don't let this phase you. You have to keep pushing. I know that this idea didn't succeed, but others will.

Norm Peterson:
No no, Diane, a few moments ago, I almost made the biggest mistake of my professional life and it was because I was doing something that just wasn't me. I am not a go-getter, I've never been a go-getter. What's more, I don't even want to be a go-getter. I'm very happy right where I am. I'm tired of all these people saying "Peterson, you gotta push", "You gotta get ahead", "You gotta make that goal." I don't even want to make the goal, Diane. I want to be a bench warmer, OK? The world needs bench warmers. I mean, if there were no bench warmers, what would we have? We'd have... cold benches. A lot of cold benches and the world does not need that, Diane. In this great pageantry of life, Norm Peterson may be a motionless lump, but he's a very damn good one.

Diane Chambers:
Norman, I've never seen you so impassioned.

Norm Peterson:
That's because I believe in this, Diane. Look, Norm Peterson is totally happy being an anonymous cog in the gigantic machinery of this firm.