I guess I wasn't very sharp, so they benched me. Anybody can have a bad afternoon.

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6 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:03:26 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- He was a fighter, light heavyweight. Once went 12 rounds with Billy Conn.

- He was really going places, then he killed a guy in the ring. A blood clot or something. He never fought again after that. Just started hitting the bottle.

- That's a shame.

- He pulled out okay. As a matter of fact, we're in business together. I bought this bowling alley on the east side, and he's running it for me. It's got 12 lanes and a cocktail bar, and it's half paid off.

- All I need is another three good seasons of pro ball.

- Boom Boom, what happened to you yesterday? I watched the game on television.

- I guess I wasn't very sharp, so they benched me. Anybody can have a bad afternoon.

- You aren't drinking, are you?

- Me? No, sir. Maybe a beer now and then, but I can't take the hard stuff.

- You know who that is? Sandy.

- I didn't know she was a singer.

- She always wanted to be. That was our problem.

- When we were first married, she was working at WJW, doing singing commercials for a linoleum company.

- There was this band... Gus Gilroy and his Gaslighters. She...cut an audition record with them. And the next thing I knew, she'd run off to New York with that Gilroy character.

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Actors: Jack Lemmon (Harry Hinkle), Walter Matthau (Whiplash Willie Gingrich), Ron Rich (Boom Boom Jackson), Judi West (Sandy Hinkle)

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