Sport Sullivan quotes from Eight Men Out (1988)

Sport Sullivan

You know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day's work out of him?

What?

Sport Sullivan

Just enough so he knows he's hungry.

Chick Gandil

You go back to Boston and turn seventy grand at the drop of a hat? I find that hard to believe.

Sport Sullivan

You say you can find seven men on the best club that ever took the field willin' to throw the World Series? I find that hard to believe.

Chick Gandil

You never played for Charlie Comiskey.

Sport Sullivan

Look at those hands, ladies. You should have been a pug, Chickie.

Chick Gandil

I did some fighting in my time. Once I was fighting a guy, my eyes were all bloody but I landed a lucky punch. The next thing I know I'm steppin' on something and it's the other guy's teeth. The referee raised my hand and someone shoved fifty bucks in my shorts. "What does he get?" I asked. The referee says, "From the looks of this jaw, a liquid diet for six weeks." Now what we should have done is held each other up for thirteen rounds and split the fifty.

Holy mother...

Sport Sullivan

Will you look at it, Jimmy? All spread out like that?

Whose is it?

Sport Sullivan

Who do you think? [hands Jimmy part of the money] Now, I want you to take this 10 grand back to Boston. I want you to go to Mulcahy, you know the password, and I want you to put it all down on Cincinnati for the first game. Tell them it's just a hunch I've got.

Some hunch.

Sport Sullivan

Then, you take this to McGinnis. You tell him that I've sure gone crazy, but I want to place 10 big ones on the Reds for the whole show.

I'm laying bets for Mr. Rothstein?

Sport Sullivan

You're laying bets for me. That thieving Jew, he's just given me a loan.

Then what's left for the players?

Sport Sullivan

Jimmy, do you know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day's work out of him?

What?

Sport Sullivan

Just enough so he knows he's hungry.

Sport Sullivan

Look at those hands, ladies. You should have been a pug, Chickie.

Chick Gandil

I did some scrapping. Once, I'm standing there in the ring. My eyes are swollen so bad, I can hardly see. All of a sudden, I bust the guy with an uppercut, he goes down. Somebody stuffs fifty bucks in my hand. Fifty bucks. Now, I'm stepping on something, and it's the other guy's teeth. "What does he get?" I ask. The referee bends over and looks, and says, "From the look of this jaw, he gets the liquid diet for six weeks." Now, what we should've done was waltz around for a few rounds, one of us falls, and we split the fifty dollars even and nobody gets hurt.