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  • The team helping finish Timo's pushup and suicide count so he can play.
    • Extra points go to Lyle who, despite not being on particularly friendly terms with Timo, was the first person to step up and offer to help with the exercises.
    • Timo thanking Coach Carter for saving his life by teaching him values and at the same time convincing the Coach to keep coaching the team when the school voted him to resign.
    • A mix between heartwarming and tearjerking, Timo's desperation to get back on the team is due in large part to missing his friends and the game he loves. As much friction as he has with Carter, he's willing to overlook that because he knows this is good for him.
  • When Worm loses his cool during the studying montage, Kenyon immediately leaps to his side to calm him down and gently help him get back to work. That's exactly the kind of caring teamwork Coach Carter was hoping to foster.
  • Timo appearing on Coach Carter's porch after his cousin Renny is shot. Timo is slowly breaking down and begging to be back on the team while Carter decides to take in Timo to comfort him.
  • "They can cut the chains off the door, but they can't make us play."
  • Despite losing the final game, Coach Carter congratulates his team on a hard-fought game and doing the impossible. Thanks to Carter's coaching, the team has grown from delinquents failing in school to exceptional men whom Carter could not be prouder of.
  • The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, in which many of Carter's players go on to live their lives in success. A far cry from the dismal fate that was in store for them if Carter never imparted his values onto the team.

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