Variant: Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
“Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.”
“Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard”
Source: Last Chance Saloon
“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
“Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.”
The New Yorker, March 28, 1953, quoted in David Remnick, "Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100", The New Yorker, March 29, 2004.
“Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.”
“Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.”
Attribution to Rockne sometime in the 1920s mentioned in Safire's Political Dictionary (2008) by William Safire, p. 401, but there is no definite mention of this yet located prior to the 1980s; in The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro, a similar remark is credited to Arnold "Red" Auerbach, based on a 1965 citation in the Mansfield News Journal [Ohio]: "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
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