You know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day's work out of him?
Jimmy
What?
Just enough so he knows he's hungry.
Chick Gandil
Michael Rooker · 5 quotes
Sport Sullivan
Kevin Tighe · 5 quotes
Eddie Cicotte
David Strathairn · 4 quotes
Swede Riesberg
4 quotes
Happy Felsch
Charlie Sheen · 3 quotes
Lefty Williams
James Read · 3 quotes
Buck Weaver
John Cusack · 2 quotes
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
John Anderson · 1 quote
Most scenes together: Sport Sullivan & Chick Gandil (3), Swede Riesberg & Happy Felsch (3), Swede Riesberg & Chick Gandil (2)
Eight Men Out quotes
Page 2 of 2[the Sox have just won the AL penant and are in the clubhouse. Some champagne bottles are sitting on a table]
What's this, Harry?
Harry
Mr. Comiskey sent these down for you. A congratulations for a successful pennant race.
That's awfully white of him. He didn't happen to mention when we can expect that bonus he promised us in return for taking the flag, did he?
Harry
This is your bonus.
Cheap bastard.
Kid Gleason Look, fellas, if it was up to me...
Kid, we got no beef with you. [opens one of the champagne bottles - nothing happens] It's flat.
[as the team prepares for a team photo]
Come on, guys. Pretend it's Commy's wake. [team laughs and the picture's taken]
I always figured it was talent made a man big, you know, if I was the best at something. I mean, we're the guys they come to see. Without us, there ain't a ballgame. Yeah, but look at who's holding the money and look at who's facing a jail cell. Talent don't mean nothing. And where's Comiskey and Sullivan, Attell, Rothstein? Out in the back room cutting up profits, that's where. That's the damn conspiracy.
Regardless of the verdict of juries... no player who throws a ball game... no player who undertakes, or promises to throw a game... no player who sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a ball game are discussed, and does not promptly tell his club about it... will ever play professional baseball again.
You get out there, and the stands are full and everybody's cheerin'. It's like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that there's the players, they're yakkin' it up. The pitcher throws and you look for that pill... suddenly there's nothing else in the ballpark but you and it. Sometimes, when you feel right, there's a groove there, and the bat just eases into it and meets that ball. When the bat meets that ball and you feel that ball just give, you know it's going to go a long way. Damn, if you don't feel like you're going to live forever.