Sam Quote #111
Quote from Sam in The Boys in the Bar
Tom: Before we start, Sam Malone, come up here. [cheers] I'm sure you all remember Sam, and if you don't, chapters seven through nine.
Sam: No, I'm a businessman now. I keep my clothes on, most of the time.
Reporter #1: So, you two were real close?
Sam: For three years we did everything together. I mean, no one ever saw us apart.
Reporter #2: Well, Sam, it must have been quite a shock to you when Tom wrote about coming out of the closet.
Sam: Oh, whoa, you mean in Detroit? When I was with the waitress, and he came out of the closet and he was wearing a... That's not what you're talking about, is it?
Cliff: Yikes.
Sam: Is this some kind of joke, Tom?
Tom: I wanted you to read the book, Sam. It's still hard for me to tell people from the old days.
Reporter #1: Sam, you said you two used to do everything together?
Sam: No, no, you misunderstood that. No. As a matter of fact, people used to come up to me and say, "You two are best friends, yet you're completely different."
Cheers Quotes
‘The Boys in the Bar’ Quotes
Quote from Carla
Carla: So what are we gonna do about these guys, huh?
Diane: Carla, you're not prejudiced against gays, are you?
Carla: Well, I'm not exactly crazy about them. I mean, I get enough competition from women. I'm telling you, if guys keep coming out of the closet, there isn't going to be anybody left to date, and I'm going to have to start going out with girls. [shudders]
Diane: Carla, you don't have to worry about me. I like my dates a little more masculine than you. Not much, but a little.
Quote from Sam
Sam: I just can't believe it. I mean, the guy was a hound, Diane. He had women everywhere. We'd be on the road, we'd go into hotel lobbies, there'd be three or four women holding up kids.
Diane: He covers that. He covers that.
Sam: Where?
Diane: Here. Here, in this paragraph. You want me to read it?
Sam: No, I'll read it. Right there?
Diane: Yes.
Sam: "From the outside, my days in baseball seemed glorious, but the greater my fear became of my true sexuality, the more I compensated with typical Don Juan promiscuity."
Diane: Does that explain it?
Sam: I don't know. I've only read it once.
Quote from Cliff
Diane: Well, I wasn't going to say anything, but you've gone so far in proving you're open-minded, Norman. There are two homosexual gentlemen in this bar at this moment.
Jack: Come on. Get outta here.
Diane: They told me they were gay, and they appreciated what Sam had done. That's right. They're here right now and you don't even know who they are.
Jack: Nah, she's kidding. Everybody here checks out all right.
Norm: Well, I don't know. It occurs to me that Cliff hasn't had a date in quite some time.
Jack: He's right.
Cliff: Oh yeah, Norm? Well, how come we've never seen this Vera you're allegedly married to, huh?