- Quark: You owe me! You begged me to stay here when you first came on board, and I did - against my better judgment.
- Commander Sisko: I didn't beg, I blackmailed you.
- [Kira is having a very bad day while Dax is having a very good day]
- Major Kira Nerys: Come on. You make your own luck, we all know that.
- [walks off-screen, trips and falls]
- [Bashir is showing O'Brien a 5000-year-old warm-up exercise]
- Doctor Bashir: According to the legend, it makes the heart a friend to the hand... Medically I don't really know what that means but, er, it seems to give me a lot of energy.
- Quark: The 47th Rule of Acquisition says, "Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own." Either you're a con-artist, or you're covering up an empty coin purse. I happen to know it's both.
- [Quark has offered to bail Martus out of prison]
- Martus Mazur: In return for what?
- Quark: Nothing. Pure generosity.
- Odo: [scoffing] Ha!
- Martus Mazur: You're enjoying this, aren't you?
- Quark: Oooh - taken in by one of your own victims, and no one to turn to but me? Ha-ha-ha-ha! I can't remember when I've been so entertained!
- [Martus has ordered a drink in Quark's]
- Quark: And how do you plan on paying for this? With charm perhaps?
- Martus Mazur: Double or nothing?
- Quark: Double nothing is still nothing.
- Alsia: I feel like I can really trust you. It's like I've known you forever.
- Martus Mazur: When hearts are in sympathy, time collapses.
- Martus Mazur: It seems that overconfidence comes in small packages around here.
- Quark: My track record speaks for itself - just like your security file.
- [Quark is complaining about Martus, who has opened a gambling establishment opposite his bar]
- Quark: He's a con-artist, a crook!
- Commander Sisko: One more won't make much difference.
- [O'Brien returns from a demoralizing racquetball game with Bashir]
- Quark: What was the score?
- Chief O'Brien: Who cares?
- Quark: I care. I'm listening. Tell me your problems, all of them.
- Chief O'Brien: I've got no problems a good drop shot wouldn't cure.
- Quark: He beat you.
- Chief O'Brien: Only by half a step, that's all. He's got a few years on me, so what? I, I've got more experience.
- Quark: [to himself] The aging champion...
- Chief O'Brien: Got spin shots he's never seen.
- Quark: ...versus the daring challenger...
- Chief O'Brien: So I had a few breaks, huh? One more game, that's all I needed.
- Quark: Come one, come all...
- Chief O'Brien: I'd've kicked him all over the court. He knows it too.
- Quark: Welcome to Quark's!
- Chief O'Brien: [irritated] Thanks!
- Quark: Don't mention it.
- Keiko O'Brien: Kick his butt.
- [Keiko's encouragement for O'Brien's upcoming racquetball match against Bashir]
- Rom: You promised me one quarter of the profits. But then you gave her everything we earned.
- Martus Mazur: I promised you one quarter of the profits *after* expenses.
- Rom: Expenses? What expenses?
- Martus Mazur: Operating costs, overhead, recapitalization.
- Rom: That does it!
- [he takes off his employee's jacket and dumps it onto Martus]
- Martus Mazur: Where are you going?
- Rom: Back to Quark. At least then I'll get cheated by family!
- [last lines]
- [Martus has asked Quark for financial help to get off the station]
- Quark: All right. I'll *loan* you 500 isiks. You can book passage on a cargo ship.
- Martus Mazur: 1500. After all, I do have expenses.
- Quark: 600.
- Martus Mazur: 1200. I still have my dignity.
- Quark: Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack - Rule of Acquisition number 109.
- Martus Mazur: [reluctantly] All right... 800.
- Quark: Go on. I'm listening.
- Martus Mazur: [trying to close a deal with Quark] I'll take one hundred times what you've got here.
- Quark: Not in this space/time continuum, you won't!
- [Martus is in animated conversation with Alsia when Odo shows up and apprehends Martus]
- Odo: Let's go.
- Martus Mazur: Exactly where are we going?
- Odo: To Security.
- Martus Mazur: But I've done nothing wrong.
- Alsia: It's true, we were just talking.
- Odo: *You* were talking, madam; he was listening.
- [Quark is musing over his new scheme to boost business in his bar - a racquet ball match between Bashir and O'Brien]
- Quark: 'Challenge of the galaxy'... Match of the Century! *Wonder* of the Wormhole...
- [Quark rolls his dice. The blue side facing up. Quark lifts his fists triumphantly]
- Quark: [Pleased as Punch] House *always* takes blue!
- [laughs]
- [first lines]
- Alsia: When my husband was alive, we ran the business together, and I managed to put away a bit of latinum every year just for myself. Now he's gone... I've quite a little sum.
- Keiko O'Brien: You had a game?
- Chief O'Brien: No, *he* had a game. I just kind of stumbled around the court for ninety minutes making a complete ass of myself.