Every mistake is one more 'nail in the coffin' of his professional baseball career.
The lawyers put another 'nail in her coffin' today.
(..) Take this. And now I've got to turn my back on you. Thirty-two hundred bucks. That is what he gave me. $ for a lifetime. It wasn't even enough to pay for the coffin. - We got to get out. - I don't want to run. Am I supposed to pick up and leave everything? Go hiding? I don't want to do that. (..)1990 Goodfellas
(..) It was among the Italians. It was real grease-ball shit. They even shot Tommy in the face... ... so his mother couldn't give him an open-coffin at the funeral. I had a busy day. I had to drop the guns off at Jimmy's... ... to match some silencers he had. I had to pick up my brother (..)1990 Goodfellas