I'm starting a new company, and the fish will come with me. I'm not gonna do what you all think I'm gonna do, which is just flip out! But let me just, let me just say, as I ease out of the office I helped build - I'm sorry, but it's a fact! - that there is such a thing as manners, a way of treating people. Note: bolded portion is ranked #25 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.Jerry: I love black people! Rod: Who's your motherfucker, Jerry? Jerry: You're my motherfucker! Show me the money! Rod: Uh! Congratulations, you're still my agent. Rod: No! Not show you! Show me the money! Jerry: Show me the money! Rod: Yeah! Louder! Jerry: Show me the money! Rod: I need to feel you Jerry! Jerry: Show me the money! Show me the money! Rod: I love black people. You can do better than that! I want you to say it brother with meaning! Hey, I got Bob Sugar on the other line I bet you he can say it! Jerry: Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. Show! Me! The! Money! Jerry, it is such a pleasure to say that! Say it with me one time, Jerry. Are you ready Jerry? I wanna make sure you're ready, brother. But this is what you gonna do for me, Jerry? Jerry: Yeah, what can I do for you, Rod? You just tell me what can I do for you? Rod: It's something very personal, a very important thing. Rod: Are you listenin'? Jerry: Yes! Rod: This is what I'm gonna do for you: God bless you, Jerry. Rod: Now to recap, I want to stay in Arizona. There was a time, yes, it felt normal for me. If you ever want me to be with another woman with you, I would do it. ![]() Never better! Never better! Open your eyes. Now it's a better life.Īvery: Don't ever stop fucking me! Jerry: Sooner or later, we'll have to stop. And if I have to ride your ass like Zorro, you're gonna show me the money.ĭialogue Ray: What's wrong, mom? Dorothy: First class is what's wrong. Anyone else would have left you by now, but I'm sticking with you.My next contract's gotta bring me the dollars that'll last me and mine a long time. I got a shelf life of ten years, tops.To be honest, in life, I failed as often as I succeeded. I'll give you fifteen minutes to call me back. I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game featuring you, while singing your own song in a new commercial, starring you, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not sleep until that happens.Bob Sugar said I don't understand what it's like to be a black man? I'm Mister black people!.I entitled it 'The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business.'.Everybody got a copy.I was 35. Even the cover looked like The Catcher in the Rye. I took it in a bag to a Copymat in the middle of the night and printed up a hundred and ten copies. Hey - I'll be the first to admit, what I was writing was somewhat touchy-feely. Caring for them, caring for ourselves and the games, too. I was remembering even the words of the original sports agent, my mentor, the late great Dickie Fox who said: 'The key to this business is personal relationships.' Suddenly, it was all pretty clear. I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote and I'm not even a writer. With so many clients, we had forgotten what was important. The way we are meant to protect them in health and in injury. I was remembering the simple pleasures of this job, how I ended up here out of law school, the way a stadium sounds when one of my players performs well on the field. What started out as one page became twenty-five. A night like this doesn't come along very often. You know, a suggestion for the future of our company. I began writing what they call a mission statement. It was the oddest, most unexpected thing. I had so much to say and no one to listen. No, no, no, here's what it was: I hated my place in the world. I couldn't escape one simple thought: I hated myself. Who had I become? Just another shark in a suit? Two days later at our corporate conference in Miami, a breakthrough.
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