“He beat him like a rented mule.”

— Mike Lange

Quoted in Bob Smizik, Tales from the Pittsburgh Penguins (2006). Lange credited a stockbroker with saying the phrase to him when Lange asked him how his day was.
Noted as a phrase closely associated with Lange, as quoted in Shelly Anderson, "Lange signs 1-year Penguins radio deal", http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07208/804828-61.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2007-07-27)

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