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Wit & Attitude Quote by Charlie Sheen

"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers"

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Sheen turns personal failure into a punchline, then uses the punchline as a battering ram. “0 for 3” isn’t just self-deprecation; it’s the language of sports and spectacle, a scoreboard that pretends to be objective while quietly flattering the speaker for his honesty. He frames his romantic history as public stats, which is exactly how celebrity culture tends to treat it anyway. If your life is tabulated by tabloids, you might as well narrate it like a postgame interview.

The pivot to “a marriage of the heart” is where the intent sharpens. He’s not arguing that commitment is meaningless; he’s claiming the only real commitment is emotional and private, and that legal marriage is a “shameful contract.” That phrasing is doing double duty: it absolves him of the institution he’s struggled with, and it recasts opting out as a moral upgrade rather than a retreat. It’s a classic Sheen maneuver: convert bad optics into a philosophy.

Then comes the cultural grenade: “amateurs and the Bible grippers.” The insult isn’t subtle, and that’s the point. It positions him as the seasoned professional of love’s chaos, mocking both religious conservatives and anyone who treats marriage as rule-bound adulthood. The subtext is resentment at being judged - by courts, exes, the press, the moralizing public. Contextually, it fits Sheen’s broader persona in the early 2010s: scandal as branding, defiance as entertainment, intimacy reframed as an anti-establishment stance.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Sheen, Charlie. (2026, January 18). I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-0-for-3-with-marriage-the-scoreboard-doesnt-18805/

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Sheen, Charlie. "I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-0-for-3-with-marriage-the-scoreboard-doesnt-18805/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-0-for-3-with-marriage-the-scoreboard-doesnt-18805/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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Charlie Sheen (born September 3, 1965) is a Actor from USA.

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