You sat down with the mad Russian and he emptied your pockets? [Narrating while entering Teddy KGB's underground gambling parlor] Worm: Look, I missed one meeting, Jo: Mike McDermott: Worm: [to Worm, irritated by his ego] Grama: What are you saying? [explaining why he mouthed off which resulted in failing to convince him to give them more time to pay back his debt to him and Teddy KGB] that's it, I mean I'm really "sunk" now. Mike McDermott: I don't even know what you're saying, State Trooper: Oh, Michael. Petra: Picture Information. get up, we're out of here, we're done, come on. Grama: I always told her she'd be a good card player, she'd know exactly know when to release a shitty hand, Worm: Teddy KGB: What's with kiting my checks? [Grabs Worm's hand] that's the buy in here, we play twenty/forty studs, grab a seat. So you're just a student now? But this isn't a gunfight. Jo: Mike McDermott: [Jokingly] But he looks pretty amatuerish in the opening scene, when he loses all his money in one hand to this guy called the KGB guy, played by John Malkovich. yeah but she was a good looking older woman you gotta give me that. Sean Frye: [to Mike, referring to that she was the one to encourage him to use his poker skills in the courtroom] [siting in a chair in his apartment] Professor Petrovsky Mike McDermott: Mike McDermott: Usually they go home with nothing but a story, down here the millionaires are scarce or they're playing craps, there's still plenty of money there for the taking, in fact you can't game in the city because the New York rounders are taking out the tourists here. Whoa, Jesus, what happened? I call your three hundred. [sarcastically] 1000 straight. Uh, you know what? With the worst kind, with the worst guy. The fuck did you lay that down? yeah, your uncle Pete told me to come by if I was ever around here. Pay him...pay that man his MIKE: What'd you say? Marinacci and the DA were ready to cut cards for your services, of course it was altogether a different trick you pulled today, the disappearing act at your meeting. Rounders Movie Quotes Mike McDermott: If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker Mike McDermott: We can't run from who we are. Yeah, he comes back over the top at me trying bully me like I'm some tourist, I hesitate for like two seconds then I'll re-raise and he makes a move to his checks and he looks at me, check his cards and looks at me again, and he mucked it, I took it down. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. Worm: changing five hundred. This is not the money store we're not negotiating I tell you how it works. alright there's union game in Jersey I know a guy's cousin can get us in, Lester 'Worm' Murphy: I'm gonna fold. Or you're just going back to printing those credit cards? We got seventy three hundred we've got to double that in two days. Teddy KGB: Are you professionals? A Screenplay. What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas? Mike McDermott: Teddy KGB: 6,667. Mike McDermott (Matt Damon): "Listen, here's the thing, if you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." Will you shut the fuck up? Professor Petrovsky: Registered User. Michael is lead counsel in the Moot Court you're presiding over next week. I amerced myself fully, I studied everything I could about the law I felt deeply inside that it was what I was born to do. Teddy KGB: [Giving Worm money] No, I'm off it. Mike McDermott: I don't care about the meeting. Finish the fucking kid off. What are you doing in there? [narrating] All right, listen, things haven't been that smooth on the homefront so, you know, tone it down a little, all right? Paul Luna. Are you going away again? His sort of out on his own, this fucker went around and bought up all my debt. Mike McDermott: Double the blind. for you. | Mike McDermott: See ya when I see ya, atleast you're "rounding" again right? [feeling offended] Does it have my name on it? That was a nifty trick the other night. [showing Mike he won the hand with a higher full house] Professor Petrovsky: Lester 'Worm' Murphy: Mike McDermott: Not to my family my parents were devastated, destroyed by my decision my father sent me away to New York to live with distant cousins I eventually found my place, my life's work, Professor Petrovsky: [while playing at the golf pro game, referring to increasing the size of the pot] Joey Knish: Mike McDermott: are you one of his "students"? splash the pot. It's a combination of things: I was watching when the cards came out, that's just an old habit with me, it's like breathing, Mike McDermott: I finally saw Rounders (1998) last night. [to Mike, referring to Grama watching them play nearby] One last card in the deck that can help them. I just caught his eye by "reading" his hand, that's all. I used to wonder how they could let themselves get into such bad shape, and how the hell they thought they could turn it around. [laughs, to his friends] [while seeing the last of his belongings packed up in a duffel bag] [narrating while waiting in Jo's jeep for him to be released from prison] Teddy KGB. [giving Mike advice during the judges game] Petra: For generations, the men of my family have been rabbis in Israel before that in Europe, it was to be my calling. Mike McDermott: The DA made his two pair, but he knows they're no good. [while getting shaved in a barbershop, referring to the amount of money they have on hand] Son of a bitch, let's play some cards! (speaking Russian) Motherfucker! [to Roman and Maurice, chastising them for deliberately speaking Russian to each other while playing poker] I could've paid that off, I had the money, Lester 'Worm' Murphy: Does he look like a man beaten by jacks? In the legal sense, can fuckin' Steinbrenner move the Yankees? Lester 'Worm' Murphy: What kind of trouble you in? Mike McDermott: (SOUNDCLIP), TEDDY: This son of bitch -- all night, he check check check. What happened? Yeah I would say good luck but I know it's not about "luck" in your game. Lead counsel for plaintiff, Mr. McDermott, please proceed with oral arguments now. He trapped me! Worm: Mike McDermott: What the hell is going on over here? What, are they the … Is your game sharp? Here are the best quotes from Rounders. [Narrating at the judge's game] Permalink: Aces full, Mike. [coming up from behind him] Mike McDermott: [Narrating while driving Knish's truck and making deliveries for him] Worm, Mike McDermott: I watch the cards but I also watch the player react to the cards. Mike McDermott: [referring to Mike, growing impatient by waiting for Teddy to win all of Mike's money] Where's your friend? How should I know that? These fuckin' long nights are killing me. [standing in front of him] Dowling: Mike McDermott: Teddy KGB: [referring to the amount of money they've won so far] You didn't "have it"? Mike McDermott: No, I don't think like you, you always think you can beat the game straight up, that's not me, and I'm always going to look for that edge, always. Mike McDermott: I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea. Teddy KGB: Just like a young man coming in for a … That Mike McDermott: Don't splash the pot. Paul Luna. Why are all your moves so smart and noble and I'm always the idiot piece of shit? I lost everything I lost my case and I lost my tuition, Joey Knish: you little punk, I'm not playing for the thrill of fucking victory here, I owe rent, alimony, child support, I play for money, my kids eat, I got stones enough not to chase card actions of fucking pipe dreams of winning the world series on ESPN, but about the money I've got to turn my back, I've got to say no. Worm: You have a respectable profession, Professor Petrovsky: Jo: I told Worm you can't lose what you don't put in the middle. Teddy KGB: Huh? Fuck it, let's go. [while driving them away from the prison] [talking in one of the corners of the Russian and Turkish bathhouse] You know, the way you calculate odds on the spot, the way you "read" people. they are the fucking rake." I thought so too now I know what real work is, speaking of which are you going to get a job? I'm on empty that's why. What the fuck are you talkin' about. Mike McDermott: Crazy Credits to Rounders is not authorized by Miramax Films. - Howard Lederer 94. [interrupts him by standing up to continue the oral arguments] let's get some in there. Those fake Versace shirts and shit? [referring to the amount of the poker blinds in the poker game] I tell you it's hard leaving that game, an open invitation to lay with those lames but I'm retired, and in my playing days, it'd be pretty sweet to have anyone of them owing me favors. You know this "feeling", I got the table all set, knife, fork, sauce... Mike McDermott: The fuck you know what we all got, Mike McDermott: That Nassau defense attorney's game? What saying? [walking up to their poker table with Mike playing with other rounders in the poker room at The Mirage] Professor Petrovsky: Mike McDermott [sensing the judges are irritated that he disrespected them by not arriving on time] [Narrating] Worm: My guess is Teddy's on a flush draw. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. Mike McDermott: [Smiling] So you just fucked us right in the ass. That's real classy, Grama: Mike McDermott: entities. Mike McDermott: Alternate Versions "Networking". Worm: Yeah he comes in after you leave, about twenty minutes later he cashes out for the full amount Maurice hasn't been back since, his been playing across the street, but Worm's been around playing, his run you up just under seven grand. And your fate is sitting right besides you. what choice? Joey Knish: I told him, did anybody else see you? you holding those for somebody? [sitting down at a strip club] [All the state troopers stand up] oh no, no, no. "You've got to know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away, know when to run." Knish you should be, because I hope you're not thinking of putting all that "glimmer" in play, Joey Knish: Mike McDermott: I need a blow job from Christy Turlington. Notify me of new comments via email. yeah, I was holding it for you, Joey Knish: Trivia Mike McDermott: It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking of how I lost it. If you are a keen observer, you can easily note that … like my occasionally went out with other men, Joey Knish: "I'd hate for 70 million poker players to wake up one day and learn that their game has been made illegal." whole_life.wav(46K) whole_life.mp3(46K) whole_life.m4r(iPhone ringtone) Joey Knish: That way he'll bet strong, and I'll beat him with my nines full over aces. Lester 'Worm' Murphy: Worm: Time - Phrase; 01:47:28 Not even Teddy KGB's immune to getting a little rattled. A grand? Here's the play: I know this girl Barbra I was so close to banging her before I went away, she works as a hostess for all the trust fund babies in there, she got me in their game, she introduces me as her "cousin" from out of town who loves to gamble and wants to win at poker. This son of a bitch is base dealing, I caught a hanger, Worm: But, I'm gonna find out. Professor Petrovsky: Lester 'Worm' Murphy: Johnny Gold: Mike McDermott: Lester 'Worm' Murphy: anytime, anyplace anywhere, oh by the way anybody. The fuck did you lay that down? [Referring to Mike after their final game] you sure you're up for this? Or else, I won't respect myself tomorrow morning. I didn't want to be found. I'll just make a couple moves earlier than I would've before. My old man just walked in. No! All logos and trademarks in this [looks down, remains silent, having been caught in a lie], Mike McDermott: Five grand a week and you keep the juice going we want what you want we want to square this thing but three days is impossible no one's saying "your not the man", just think of it as a business decision, he just got out let's put him on a plan, Grama: Someone saying something "meaningful" would please us a great deal. Worm: I think I might be in line for a clerkship. The elders said I had a forty year old understanding of the Midrash. Moogie: Nyet! So, instead of coming home, you went out and played cards with some judge? you said Grama was on his own, Worm: Teddy KGB: [Narrating, while playing with other rounders against other players at the poker room in the Mirage] I am still up 20 grand... from this last time I stick it in you. Mike McDermott: Mike McDermott: I think the most important thing is to be respectful to the judges but not obsequious, Kelly: Oh come on forget that this girl is obviously wrapped way too tight for a living, Mike McDermott: Are you trying to con me now? No, we get to Steinbrenner in third year law school. so, you're out of here huh? Grama: here's two twenty, that'll get you started. Hey, lemme ask you a question. [realizing what he meant] [after losing almost every hand because he underestimated Mike's poker abilities] If you had it to do all over again, knowing what would happen, would you make the same choice? Mike McDermott: [to Mike, referring the stacks of poker chips hidden underneath Mike's hat, before lifting up the hat] Fifteen large five days or I start breaking things. Mike McDermott: You want to play "straight"? Discover and share Teddy Kgb Rounders Quotes. I can see you're banged up pretty good, you never should've vouched for that scumbag, Grama: [sitting inside Jo's jeep, outside the fraternity house] Lester 'Worm' Murphy: I'd just throw it away you still got the truck? As you can see I can't pay you, Grama: Lester 'Worm' Murphy: Mike McDermott: //-->. It was a good poker movie. Do me a favor and put him on his own? [Narrating, after leaving the judges game] Not exactly I don't have to tell you my collection methods. Luckily this time it is Mike who comes out ahead, winning $20,000 in total. What, are you shitting me? You still got time, go back in there and lose their money back to them, and make it look good. Mike McDermott: Mike McDermott: Now, what did I ever do to that guy? Well, after I left you last night at the library, I impressed Judge Marinacci. Judge Marinacci: Worm: 01:47:39 Kid's got alligator blood. [after leaving the golf pro game, referring to Mike losing a big pot] If you can't determine who's the sucker in the first 5 minutes of sitting down, then you are the sucker. [while dropping off deliveries] [siting in a chair in his apartment, with his head looking down] TEDDY: Very aggressive. Did you get into the office? yeah, all the way, you see what I'm saying. The story follows two friends who need to win at high-stakes poker to quickly pay off a large debt. Mike McDermott: (SOUNDCLIP). Mike McDermott: Mike McDermott: [folds his hand] Lester 'Worm' Murphy: All their outs gone. Alright so its ten grand total, take back the two we lent you, give you the "white meat.". You lost it to Roman and Maurice? I had six but I had to know, Mike McDermott: Worm: So, so, six thousand, two thousand and here's two more, Petra: Where the fuck do you get off? Voila! fuck I please. Mike McDermott: All the luck in the world isn't going to change things for these guys, they're simply over matched, we're not playing together but then again we're not playing against each other, they wear their "tells" like signs around their necks, facial tics, nervous fingers the hand over the mouth, the way a cigarette is smoked, little unconscious gestures that reveal the cards in their hands. Mike McDermott : [ Narrating while entering Teddy KGB's underground gambling parlor ] In "Confessions of a Winning Poker Player," Jack King said, "Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the … TTEDDY: Fine, it's a fucking joke anyway. It's true. Mike McDermott: You told me a lot of things, Joey Knish: Are you satisfied now, Teddy? For example, Mike McDermott, played by Matt Damon, is supposed to be this brilliant poker player. [Narrating] you don't hear much about guys who take their shot and miss, I'll tell you what happens to them: they end up humping crappy jobs on grave yard shifts, trying to figure out how they came up short. there's plenty more where that came from, Mike McDermott: Jo: That's the safe play. Rounders (1998) 01:47:36 Hanging around. Jo Knish Mike McDermott Petra Professor Petrovsky Teddy KGB Worm . No, I wasn't even playing. [seeing Mike after he knocked on the door] , you're really going back there? Taki: Besides, he could use the background if he's gonna clerk for one of you fellas this summer, right? I'm going home. I got up and walked to the cashier, I sat with the best in the world, and I won, Joey Knish: [interrupting their study group] around. So he took off eight from Roman and Maurice? View Quote. [his head looks up] Worm: You're tapped again? Petra: I mean five hundred isn't even enough to get me started. I told Worm you can't lose what you don't put in the middle. Yes sir, I am, not with the law, I owe, Mike McDermott: 's office as long as they never miss a lawyer's league game. I don't know if I'm going to bring my legal career to a crashing halt before it even starts but sometimes I just can't help myself. Then he plays back at me, and I get paid off. TEDDY: You on a draw, Mike? [Narrating while driving with Worm towards The Mirage] I told Worm you can't lose what you don't put in the middle. I'm sorry, Lester 'Worm' Murphy: [realizing his pride got the better of him] I can't lose what I don't put in the middle. This is what I love about you, you think about the big picture. [sarcastically, before Grama drags him into the bathroom] site are property of their respective owners. Worm: Your hopes dashed, your dreams I was the "pride" of my Yeshiva. Grama: No, not to me, I'm sure there was a good reason you left, you just have to work harder, prepare and smooth things out with the others, I'm sure there was a good reason why you left. Generally the rule is: the nicer the guy, the poorer the card player, these guys despite being cops are real sweet hearts. [referring to making money by playing cards after been released from prison] Mike McDermott: Mike McDermott: Worm: I got bad news for you Worm I'm out on my own now, Grama: Mike McDermott: I know that look. In the poker game of life, women are the rake man. Worm: Jacks are a monster compared to the crap you've played. people insist on calling it "luck". This is the one time I don't need you to tell me how I fucked up, I know I fucked up, what I need from you is money, I need whatever money you can give me, Joey Knish: [Implying Worm doesn't have money to buy into this game] First prize at the World Series of Poker is a million bucks. Mike McDe, you lost? Teddy KGB: After all, I am paying you with your money. Worm: take it down, Johnny Gold: Mike McDermott: Petra: Lester 'Worm' Murphy: [writes a check] yeah there's a lot of money in that one. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect spot. $19.99 + $5.95 shipping . . Mike McDermott: Rags, I had nothing, but he raised and I decided I don't care about the money, I'm just going to out play the guy, I'm going to out play this guy, this hand, I'll re-raise. you know if we wanted to take each other's "rolls" we could've just stayed home. It hurts doesn’t it? They all say that at first, let me stake you, standard deal fifty percent of your winnings, if you lose it's on me. If it wasn't "magic", how did you know what everyone held? Mike McDermott: [Narrating a quote from a gambling maxim] [nervously] TEDDY: Just like a young man, coming in for a quickie. Lester 'Worm' Murphy: Grama: A new day, and you won't be pushed around. Worm: 1000 straight. I'm not going to get down on my knees for that jerk off. Grama: Nothing, she closed her legs too fast! I'll be really quick. Fuck all that, we don't have time for that shit, that guy was papier Mache, you gotta make "strong moves". What'd he give him? Looks like we got a rogue game here. I've often seen these people, these squares at the table, short stack and long odds against them. [Narrating] Added: May 16, 2007; Mike McDermott: That's 4,400. I got a full house. It's a skill game Jo. Can't get rid of him. Worm: [Narrating while waiting for a taxi to take him to the airport] That ace could not have helped you. No More! Lester 'Worm' Murphy: You owe twenty five I'll take the rest in five days, Mike McDermott: Teddy KGB: Just like a young man coming in for a quickie...i feel so unsatisfied. You're the one that flushed his whole bank roll on one hand, Mike McDermott: just walking in here makes me queasy, the brick walls, the fucking mopes at the table, the musty smell, I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea, but what choice do I have? No! Mike McDermott: If you think his good for it then it's on you too. Come to order in the matter of Slater v. New York State Higher Education Services.The facts have been stipulated, the briefs have been read. Mike McDermott: How the hell am I supposed to get in this game? | Mike McDermott: Rounders (1998) - Yarn is the best way to find video clips by quote. Kid, is he paying you for this late night shift? twice in one week, for someone that don't play spend a lot of time in card rooms. 01:47:32 Enough is enough, Teddy. His saying you're dealing off the bottom of the deck. At the time, Pacepa was an intelligence chief and three-star general in the Securitate, Romania’s secret police during the days of the Soviet Union. But you can't win much either. Last night I sat down at this card table and it was the first time I felt alive since I got busted at KGB's joint, Mike McDermott: You're getting cold cards? [jokingly, referring to his time in prison] Never let that guy ahold of you? Still $5,000 short, Mike decides to play against KGB once again to see if he can win back the remainder of his debt. They're trying to goad me, trying to own me. You've got to understand there's two economies in there, there's cash and there's trade, so I've got to keep three games going at once, a game with the white guys, a game with the brothers and a game with the guards, the trick is I've got to skim enough cash off the white guys so I can lose it to the guards so they can keep doing me favors and then I've got to trim enough smokes off the brothers so I can trade and keep living in the "style" I've grown accustomed to and I've got to do all of this without getting my ass kicked. Would you stop fucking around, for five goddamn minutes for once in your fucking life? You are right. I know all the reasons I shouldn't be here: sometimes reasons don't matter, no one's stood up for Worm his been kicked around his whole life from his father on down, maybe his not the same guy he was when he went away but I can't give up on him that easily, I'm all his got, Mike McDermott: [after looking at his hand and at Osborne , intentionally folding to avoid both of them getting caught base dealing] [while adding money to the pot] That's big, Grama: I was "waiting" the guy out, eventually he was going to bluff at the wrong pot, then I was going to take it, Lester 'Worm' Murphy: Share with: Link: Copy link. Want a cookie? Respect is all you have left in the morning! No More! Lester 'Worm' Murphy: After all, I am you watch the man? Mike McDermott: Vitter: [before their final game, putting his chips in a poker tray] Yes, I do. Rounders: Should have paid me off on that. The amazing thing is, in this collection of great legal minds, there isn't a single real card player, Worm: Mike McDermott: It's like the nature channel... you don't see Piranhas eating themselves, do you? Don't [Narrating, while going to see Grama to tell him he doesn't have the money to pay off Worm's debt to him] First of all I wasn't "printing" I was "distributing" its different, second of all I'm never going back there, stop worrying so much. Stones? [in the Russian and Turkish bathhouse, sees Mike with a broken nose] The first two thousand you owe the Chesterfield. I got certain "needs" I have to attend to I'm overdue, Mike McDermott: Yeah well, you should've seen me yesterday. [in a gymnasium] time, Mike McDermott: we're not going to talk? Anyway, when you make the opening remarks, make sure you stick to the fact pattern.