Eight Men Out (1988)

Michael Lerner: Arnold Rothstein

Quotes 

• [Atell and Rothstein are discussing the plan to fix the series] 

  Abe Atell : They say that six or seven guys. I find that hard to believe.

  Arnold Rothstein : Doesn't surprise me.

  Abe Atell : Yeah, but they're the champs.

  Arnold Rothstein : You were champ, Abe, you went down for the bucks.

  Abe Atell : This is different.

  Arnold Rothstein : Look, champ. I know guys like that. I grew up with them. I was the fat kid they wouldn't let play. "Sit down, fat boy'. That's what they'd say "Sit down, maybe you'll learn something." Well, I learned something alright. Pretty soon, I owned the game, and those guys I grew up with come to me with their hats in their hands. Tell me, champ, all those years of puggin', how much money did you make?

  Abe Atell : The honest fights or the ones I tanked?

  Arnold Rothstein : Altogether, I must've made ten times that amount betting on you and I never took a punch.

  Abe Atell : Yeah, but I was champ. Featherweight champeen of the world!

  Arnold Rothstein : Yesterday. That was yesterday.

  Abe Atell : No A.R. you're wrong. I was champ, and can't nothin take that away.