“You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret, contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what I am chasing.”
Ben Cross - Harold Abrahams

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Charles Bronson

- Jane Hilton: "Grandpa, Grandpa, Grandpa". What about yourself? Why is it so important that you satisfy him, the old...
- Cpl. Bill Smollett 2nd: Because he loved me so. I'm sure he did - once. But all through military school, from the time I was eight years old, I kept letting him down.
Jennifer Jones - Jane Hilton
Robert Walker - Cpl. Bill Smollett 2nd

“You don't know anything about society, Maria; you don't have the satisfaction of avoiding it.”

Michael Douglas - Nicholas Van Orton

“- John Gage: I mean even beyond money, what would satisfy you completely? For you to sleep well at night?
- David Murphy: You're saying you're not satisfied?
- John Gage: Who is?”
Robert Redford - John Gage
Woody Harrelson - David Murphy