Coach quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

You played?

Goren

Yeah. High school.

In the city? Maybe I saw you play.

Goren

No. I didn't stick with it.

Ah. Maybe with the right encouragement.

[To Bishop] Does he always beat around the bush?

Goren

I can be direct. You're divorced. You got no kids. And basketball is pretty much it for you, Coach. You haven't won a championship in the last seven years. You might be hungry for a big win to cap your career. Hungry enough to go into business with Curtis Romney?

I can be direct, too. I see a problem with authority figures. You defy them. You disrespect them. But the truth is, you're intimidated by them. It's the mark of a boy with an indifferent father. His absence took the joy out of playing basketball.

Goren

You know how to pick 'em, Coach.

Now, you go ahead, Goren. You get it all out, all that defiance.

Goren

You see that? His understanding of what makes a young man tick -- it's like a gift.

You really beat the old man good, didn't you?

Goren

Well, that's how I beat all my men on the court, Coach-- head fake.

The way you talk about the game, it's just as well you stopped playing. You got no love for it.

Bishop

Well, he's hardly one to talk.

Goren

No, he's right. I stopped loving the game, when I saw it-- it wasn't getting me what I wanted.