First reporter Quotes in The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

First reporter: Say, do you know anything about electricity?

S.B. Bellows: My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at State Prison.

First Reporter: Can he box?

Eddie Willis: No Gene Tunney.

Second Reporter: Can he punch?

Eddie Willis: Not like Jack Dempsey.

Third Reporter: Well, what's he got besides just being big?

Eddie Willis: He's got an iron jaw and a cast-iron stomach. Not a man alive can hurt him.

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First reporter: Doctor, is it true that through your experiments in endocrine glands you can cure crime?

Second reporter: What about this crime cure?

Dr. Herbert Stander: Boys, after the grand jury's decision, I'll have a statement to make. If making a criminal mind is normal... than I'll be indicted.

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[Lou Gehrig, wearing a huge cowboy hat, holds a press conference before leaving for his remote ranch]

First Reporter: There's gold in them thar hills!

Second Reporter: Ride 'em, cowboy!

First Reporter: I'll bet you a new suit of clothes you'll be in Florida for spring practice.

Second Reporter: Aw, just wait till the old season starts. You'll miss the crowds and the cheering and the excitement.

Lou Gehrig: That's just what I want to get away from. I've had all of that. I'm going to wallow in peace and quiet for the rest of my life. I'm going to hang up my spikes for a swell old pair of carpet slippers.