If I can't win, I won't run!
Sybil Gordon If you won't run, you can't win.
Harold M. Abrahams
Ben Cross · 15 quotes
Eric Liddell
Ian Charleson · 6 quotes
Sam Mussabini
Ian Holm · 5 quotes
Most scenes together: Harold M. Abrahams & Sam Mussabini (3), Eric Liddell & Harold M. Abrahams (2)
Chariots of Fire quotes
Page 1 of 2 Sybil Gordon [About Eric Liddel]
I've never seen such drive, such devotion in a runner. He runs like a wild animal. He unnerves me.
As well he should. He frightens the living daylights out of me. [chuckles]
Yes, well, I want you to help me take him on.
No. Why?
Well, when the right woman comes along, how would you feel if she pops the question? [quiet laugh] Ya'see, Mr. Abrahams, like the bridegroom, it's the coach should do the asking.
[very serious]
Mr. Mussabini...I can run fast. With your help I believe I can run even faster. I want that Olympic medal. Now I can see it there. It's waiting for me. But I can't get it on my own.
And now in one hour's time, I will be out there again. I will raise my eyes and look down tha corridor; 4 feet wide, with 10 lonely seconds to justifiy my whole existence. But will I?
Aubrey, I've known the fear of losing but now I am almost too frightened to win.
Lord Andrew Lindsay Protocol, Monty, Protocol, he is here to show us what must be done and more essentially what may not be.
Lord Birkenhead Ah, Liddell! I was afraid you weren't here.
I'm afraid I am, sir.
Eric Liddell? He's no real problem...
You could have fooled me.
[Eric has already beaten Harold once]
Yeah he's fast! But he won't go any faster. He's a gut runner, digs deep! But a short sprint is run on nerves. It's tailor-made for neurotics.
[to Harold in training]
I want you to pretend you're running on hot bricks: if you leave your feet too long on the ground, they'll get burned! Pop, pop, pop! Light, light, light as a feather!
Do you want to know why you lost today?
[Pushes coin together]
Have you got another two coins, Mr. Abrahams? Well, maybe we can find 'em.
Do you want to know why you lost today?
Sybil Gordon Why running?
Why singing?
Sybil Gordon My job. [pause] No. No, that's silly. I do it because I love it.
Sybil Gordon [Harold nods]
You love running?
I'm more of an addict.
Henry Stallard [The athletes are playing cricket in the ballroom of their hotel. Henry Stallard is the umpire; Aubrey Montague bowls a delivery to Eric Liddell, batting]
No ball!
[Aubrey bowls another delivery, which deceivingly appears to have gotten Eric out]
How zat!
Henry Stallard Not out!
What do you mean, not out? You could have heard it from bloddy Bournemouth! Come on, Liddell, my innings.
I didn't touch it, I swear it, must've been the crack of my wrist!
He's out I tell you, you're all deaf - deaf and bloody blind! Aubrey I ask you, for God's sake!
[No responce from Aubrey, dramatic pause] [punching the air]
It's not FAIR!
[The athletes break into laughter, Abrahams eventually joining them]
And now in one hour's time, I will be out there again. I will raise my eyes and look down that corridor; 4 feet wide, with 10 lonely seconds to justify my existence. But will I?
his a STRONG man but is unsure about his religion.