100 Best Quotes From Netflix’s Cheer

Cheer is an American sports television docuseries that follows the ups and downs of Navarro College’s competitive cheer squad as they work to win a coveted national title. This show greatly portrays how rigorous the sport is today, which is why it is such a popular Netflix original!

Here’s the scoop on the best Cheer quotes!

1. “You keep going until you get it right. And then you keep going until you can’t get it wrong.” -Monica Aldama

2. “It doesn’t matter what people think about cheerleading, if it’s something that you love to do then that’s all that counts.” -Jade Withrow

3. “That was not my plan, you know? I had a business degree. I wasn’t gonna teach cheerleading… But I definitely took everything I learned in business school and used it to build a program.” -Monica Aldama

4. “You cаn’t grow if you don’t experience fаilure.” -Monica Aldama

5. “If you don’t have failure, you don’t grow. You tend to stay complacent.” -Monica Aldama

6. “Every place that you can find to mat talk them, do it.” -Monica Aldama

7. “It’s all business… If I’m coaching, I don’t have time to worry about if I’m hurting someone’s feelings. I do feel bad about it, but I don’t ever let that affect my coaching decisions.” -Monica Aldama

8. “Who knows what it takes to actually ‘make it’? I’m still working on it and am definitely proud of the positive stepping stones I’ve hit along the way.” -Monica Aldama

9. “You’re not gonna fall if you go 100… It’s when you try to hold back, that’s when you hurt your ankle. You have to build up your confidence… Once you get your confidence built up, it’ll be fine.” -Monica Aldama

10. “I didn’t inherit some great program. It was a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.” -Monica Aldama

11. “He’s being too nice, and that’s just his personality. He’s not gonna be the one that jumps in front of someone else, when he should… You gotta earn your spot. You gotta think about yourself.” -Monica Aldama

12. “The hard work and the sacrifice that y’all put in all year long, take that into life after cheerleading because if you work hard in anything you do, you will be rewarded. You will be successful in life.” -Monica Aldama

13. “Girl you’re arguing with the wrong bitch.” -La’Darius Marshall

14. “I will debate you up one side and down the other if you talk about my boys, I will… I won’t budge about my beliefs at all. I’m not doing it. Those are my kids. I’ll fight tooth and nail for them.” -Monica Aldama

15. “Stomp on his neck.” -La’Darius Marshall

16. “How did go from being center stunt to not being there at all?” -Maddy Brum

17. “If we make a decision that I feel is best for the team, I need you to support that, all right?” -Monica Aldama

18. “Whoever thought of chucking someone into the air and seeing how many times they can flip…that person is psychotic, but yet, I’m the crazy person that does it.” -Morgan Simianer

19. “My goal was to be the best cheer program in the country.” -Monica Aldama

20. “If I wouldn’t have come here, I’d be sitting in a jail cell right now” -Lexi Brumback

21. “Navarro, where’s it located? Zoom in. Where? I guess I’m going there.” -Kapena Kea

22. “We only compete once for two minutes and 15 seconds in Daytona. That may be your last time in your career.” -Andy Cosferent

23. “It’s been a very difficult year. We have had a rollercoaster.” -Monica Aldama

24. “We have kids that come from a broken home or a troubled past.” -Monica Aldama

25. “I kind of lost myself.” -Lexi Brumback

26. “Really the only reason I even wanted or agreed to do the docuseries was just to show the athleticism and the hard work, and I had no idea that it would get crazy like it did.” -Monica Aldama

27. “I didn’t know the other side of that existed. That… the hate, the negativity, the… using the headlines to… you know, to tarnish… you know, the things you work towards, so… It’s been hard. Definitely been hard.” -Monica Aldama

28. “I can’t even wrap my head around how I should feel.” -Monica Aldama

29. “This has been a tough year. But then there’s just these moments that are so… wonderful. These little moments of success that keep you coming back. Just the… the little things that add up.” -Monica Aldama

30. “You know you really made it when there’s a BuzzFeed quiz about which Cheer person you are” -Morgan Simianer

31. Basically, one of the reasons why I wanted to come back was after the show aired, it really made me realize how much I truly miss this place, and how, like, amazing, like, this program is. -Lexi Brumback

32. “Ellen hugged me.” -Gabi Butler

33. “He has one straight side and one gay side. Show him.” -Lexi Brumback

34. “Yeah. Okay, hold on. My gay side. My straight side.” -La’Darius Marshall

35. “Oh my god. I could kiss you.” -Lexi Brumback

36. “They’re all teammates. So we don’t see each other as celebrity versus… You know, we just see each other as teammates.” -Monica Aldama

37. “I don’t really see myself as, like, famous. Just because, like, that’s weird to think about.” -Monica Aldama

38. “I feel like I’m in a dream. I’m like, ‘When am I gonna wake up?’” -Morgan Simianer

39. “It’s obviously a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that not a lot of people get to experience. But I’m mentally and physically exhausted.” -Morgan Simianer

40. “We have so many people pulling us in different directions, and we don’t tell many people ‘no’ if we can make it work.” -Monica Aldama

41. “You have to jump on this train, but it’s a lot of added stress on top of a season that’s already super stressful because of the pressure that we put on ourselves to be great.” -Monica Aldama

42. “But no matter how much of a family you might want, you still want to have a championship ring, so that’s where me as an athlete, I’m the ultimate rival.” -Vontae Johnson 

43. “I’m out to destroy you. I’m not here to be your best friend.” -Vontae Johnson

44. “When we heard our second place, it was the most devastating moment I have ever been through when it comes to sports” -Jada Wooten

45. “For Monica to be at the age she’s at, and for her still to be where she is, is phenomenal because it’s a tough sport to stay evolving with.” -Brad Vaughan

46. “If you’re not one step ahead of the game, your competition is gonna be right on your heels.” -Brad Vaughan

47. “The difference between a stage and the gym floor is there’s a little bit of give.” -Monica Aldama

48. “So, we just got a big donation from Ellen, so… hopefully, fingers crossed, we’ll have a stage to practice on before Daytona.” -Monica Aldama

49. “In my experience of eight years in Navarro, not one team has been this talented.” -Andy Cosferent

50. “That girl does not know how good she is. She has no idea.” -Monica Aldama

51. “I hold things in because I feel like I’ll be judged sometimes.” -Morgan Simianer

52. “In my head I just feel like I’m never good enough for people.” -Morgan Simianer

53. “They would make me feel like I was not a part of the family.” -La’Darius Marshall

54. “If you want to be one of the top teams at the competition, you have to step it up.” -Monica Aldama 

55. “What we’re reaching for… it’s… it’s insane.” -Andy Cosferent

56. “This year’s team is amazing. The talent is ridiculous, and I’m really excited to get started.” -Monica Aldama

57. “Some of those last spots are gonna be a battle, but your attitude will make or break you.” -Monica Aldama

58. “There’s all these kids coming in that have like so much confidence and talent, like, ‘These kids are showing me up.’” -Morgan Simianer

59. “If the attitude’s not good, you won’t be going to Daytona.” -Monica Aldama

60. “There’s just so much talent in this rookie class. I want to use the word ‘magical.’ Their technique is just unbeatable.” -James Thomas

61. “She will drill herself if she does not get something absolutely perfect. But I mean, it pays off because she’s incredible.” -Morgan Simianer

62. “They’ll get mad if they don’t get the spot they wanted, but a lot of people have to understand that Monica knows what she’s doing.” -Morgan Simianer

63. “When a veteran comes back, it’s never easy for the first years because this person just jumps right in.” -Andy Cosferent

64. “It is a little frustrating for some of the rookies because by people coming back, it’s them taking their spot back on the mat, so that doesn’t give other people opportunity to be able to make mat.” -Morgan Simianer

65. “I feel like this year is a little more competitive, especially with people like La’Darius coming back.” -Alex Bouhuys

66. “There might be people that are like, ‘My gosh.’ ‘My spot! My tumbling spot!’ Then do better.” -La’Darius Marshall

67. “Everybody has a humbling moment when they get to Navarro.” -La’Darius Marshall

68. “We all have that competitive nature. That’s why we like cheerleading.” -Brooke Morosca

69. “Sometimes your role is to be on mat, and sometimes your role is to support. You need to be a good teammate no matter what your role is.” -Brooke Morosca

70. “My strength as a cheerleader would be the way I approach performing.” -Maddy Brum

71. “When I joined cheerleading, instead of asking people to, my goal was to make people want to watch me.” -Maddy Brum

72. “I like when people compliment me and tell me I’m doing good at what I’m doing.” -Maddy Brum

73. “I never really got things handed to me, and I never expected myself to leave Massachusetts ever.” -Maddy Brum

74. “I knew that if I came here, Monica was gonna show me what I deserve to be.” -Maddy Brum

75. “At the end of the day, as coaches, we just have to make decisions that are best for the team.” -Monica Aldama

76. “I haven’t really seen anyone let it get to their head, but when they do let it get to their heads… it’ll show on the mat.” -Monica Aldama

77. “Cheerleading, it’s all a mind game.” -Maddy Brum

78. “If you don’t believe that you’re gonna be the best, then you’re not gonna be the best” -Maddy Brum

79. “After Daytona, I was feeling defeated. And I’ve already felt that once, and I refuse to feel it again.” -Jada Wooten

80. “I’ve won every competition there is. That gave me a lot of confidence. I’m clearly doing something right.” -Jada Wooten

81. “We got it to where she can be humbly cocky, so she can shine in her way.” -Vontae Johnson

82. “This is all I’m doing. This is all I’ve been working for. And to win with my team, I can fall out into tears.” -Jada Wooten

83. “Be better. Then no one will come for your spot. Be better, that’s all you gotta do.” -Maddy Brum

84. “I’m freaking out for no reason.” -Brooke Morosca

85. “The vets that don’t make it on mat their rookie year, and then they come back, and now they’re vets, they want to prove to Monica, and the coaches, and everyone around that they are capable of being on that mat like anybody else was last year. And so the pressure is really on.” -Kapena Kea

86. “When you don’t make mat, it feels like a landslide. It feels like an avalanche. It feels like you have done everything in your power to climb up this and persevere, and you were determined to achieve this, and it just gets slipped under you.” -Kapena Kea

87. “There’s always going to be, when you have a lot of talented people, people that feel like they wish they had the opportunity.” -Monica Aldama

88. “I’m over it.” -Vontae Jordan

89. “If you’re out of breath, and you’re dying, you are not working out when you’re supposed to be working out! You’re not putting in the extra work that you’re supposed to put in!” -Vontae Jordan

90. “Working together takes a team.” -Vontae Jordan

91. “I’m not gonna worship nobody, so I’m not gonna make nobody feel like they have to worship me, no matter how much I call myself ‘the queen.’” -La’Darius Marshall

92. “I don’t know where I’m sleeping tonight, but I know tomorrow at 6:00, I’m going to cheerleading practice.” -Maddy Brum

93. “It’s definitely the hardest season I’ve ever had.” -Monica Aldama

94. “Cheerleading is the only thing that can get my mind off of everything else.” -Gabi Butler

95. “Don’t come to the Valley just because you want to be famous. Come because you want to be the best.” -Vontae Johnson

96. “I don’t need to win any more trophies, but I do want to be the best.” -Monica Aldama

97. “My mindset was how I was in football. I’m out to destroy you.” -Vontae Johnson

98. “It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.” -Andy Cosferent

99. “We go through this whole year grinding and dying and getting hurt, just to compete.” -Jada Wooten

100. “When you see these influencers, their success is financial, but also they have become pop culture icons now.” -Jordan Brooks-Wess

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