“If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me.”

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.”

“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.”

“If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot.”

“Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?”

“Play hard. Play smart. Play together.”

“To do...what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that...make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are.”