“Eight Men Out” quotes
(1988)
Title Eight Men Out
Year 1988
Director John Sayles
Genre Drama, History, Sport
Year 1988
Director John Sayles
Genre Drama, History, Sport
Plot – Chicago, 1919. 'The Sox' is the unbeatable local baseball team whose team owner is Charles Comoskey. He's so stingy that the salary is very low and players are bribed easily. Traffickers and opponents manage to threaten the 'Sox' to lose the championship to let win Cincinnati 'Reds' team. The two most valuable players - Buck Weaver and Joe Jackson - play without making any mistakes, but their teammates don't, playing a lazy and dirty game. Every game is rigged, so two journalists provoke a scandal and the players end up in court accused for criminal association conspiracy. Comoskey obtains their absolution, but the event leads to accurate and impartial investigations in the sport world. A magistrate is appointed as the baseball Commissioner and decides any player who will be involved in future in similar cases of corruption will be banned from professional baseball forever.
All actors – John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, D.B. Sweeney, Michael Rooker, Don Harvey, James Read, Perry Lang
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“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.”
“Everybody's got their own way of letting off steam, Ring. It's what you do on the field that counts.”
“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 never play...” (continue)(continue reading)
- Hired Killer: You're gonna lose tomorrow.
- Claude "Lefty" Williams: Oh, is that so?
- Hired Killer: I know it for a fact. That your wife?
- Claude "Lefty" Williams: Yeah, what's it to you?
- Hired Killer: You don't lose tomorrow, she dies.“- Alfred Austrian: Their names may not sound familiar, but I'd say that these men are the Ty Cobb, the Tris Speaker, and the Zack Wheat of the legal world.
- Buck Weaver: Who's the Babe Ruth?
- Alfred Austrian: That's me.”- Charles "Commie" Comiskey: We feel that we need a commissioner who will clean up baseball and give a new face to the sport. We're prepared to grant you certain powers...
- Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis: Absolute powers.
- Charles "Commie" Comiskey: Absolute powers?
- Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis: Won't work any other way. People won't believe... (continue)(continue reading)“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...” (continue)(continue reading)
“People are human.”
- Arnold "Chick" Gandil: You go back to Boston and turn seventy grand at the drop of a hat? I find that hard to believe.
- Joseph '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.
- Arnold "Chick" Gandil: You never played for Charlie Comiskey.- Joseph "Sport" Sullivan: Look at those hands, ladies. You should have been a pug, Chickie.
- Arnold "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... (continue)(continue reading)- George "Buck" Weaver: How do I look?
- Helen Weaver: You look just fine.
- George "Buck" Weaver: I look like a future jailbird.- Joseph "Sport" Sullivan: You know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day's work out of him?
- Jimmy: What?
- Joseph "Sport" Sullivan: Just enough so he knows he's hungry.“I may be dumb, fellas, but I ain't stupid.”
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