Mike Flaherty Quotes in Win Win (2011)

Mike Flaherty: [to the wrestling team] Now, did you all see what Kyle did the other day? He exploded up, right? Kyle, show the guys what you did.

Kyle: It's kind of my own thing.

Mike Flaherty: Well, can you share it with us?

Kyle: But it's not even a move or anything.

Mike Flaherty: It's okay.

Kyle: All right. Well, I just tell myself that the guy on top's tryin' to take my head and shove it under water and kill me, and if I don't wanna die on bottom, I have to do whatever the fuck it takes to get out.

Stephen Vigman: [breaking a stunned silence] Okay. So the move is "Whatever the fuck it takes." Let's go. Let's work on it.

Terry Delfino: [chiming in forcefully as if knowledgeable] WHATEVER THE FUCK IT TAKES! LET'S GO, GENTLEMEN. UP!

Jackie Flaherty: I wanna go to Ohio and beat the crap out of his mom.

Mike Flaherty: Okay, come on.

Jackie Flaherty: No, I do. I want to beat the crap out of her and her stupid boyfriend.

Mike Flaherty: Okay.

Jackie Flaherty: I'm serious.

Mike Flaherty: I know you are. I just... I don't think that beating the crap out of everybody is the best solution, that's all.

Jackie Flaherty: It feels like it.

[Jackie locks Kyle in the basement]

Mike Flaherty: Whare're you doin'?

Jackie Flaherty: We have kids, Mike. I'm not taking any chances with Eminem down there.

Mike Flaherty: There's not even a bathroom down there, Jack.

[Jackie reluctantly unlocks the door]

Jackie Flaherty: You're gonna talk to her, right?

Mike Flaherty: Yes, I intend to, if you don't punch her out first.

Godfrey: Prosperity is just around the corner.

Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.