Kevin Tighe Quotes

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.

Lyman Dooley, what is it about me that makes you so passionate?

Dooley Well, it's not your looks, Lyman. I guess it's your job.

Lyman And knowing your methods of law enforcement, I don't suppose that you have a search warrant?

Dooley Dog ate it. You can hang around his tail for an hour.

Jimmy Holy mother...

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

Jimmy Whose is it?

Sport Sullivan Who do you think? 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.

Jimmy 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.

Jimmy 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.

Jimmy 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?

Jimmy 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.