Quote from Carla in Now Pitching, Sam Malone
Norm: Ho, Cliff. Isn't that Tibor Svetkovic? Carla: Svetkovic, where? Cliff: Oh, yeah, that's Svetkovic all right. Diane: Based on the fact that he has a long name that you can all pronounce, it's my guess that he's an athlete. Or will he be president in 1990? Cliff: Diane, the man was Czechoslovakia's greatest hockey player. He defected to us just to play in the NHL. Sam: It's an incredible story actually. He dressed up as a woman, hid in a haystack, crawled on his belly under barbed wire, swam a couple of rivers and stowed away on a tramp steamer to get here. Diane: Amazing. Carla: The next week, the rest of his team came over on the Concorde. That's what he gets for not reading his schedule. Cliff: Well, nobody said he was a smart hockey player.