“Tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.”

Pat O'Brien - Knute Rockne

“- Harold M. Abrahams: If I can't win, I won't run!
- Sybil Gordon: If you don't run, you can't win.”
Ben Cross - Harold Abrahams
Alice Krige - Sybil Gordon

“Don't get caught up thinking about winning or losing this game. If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book, we're gonna be winners!”

Gene Hackman - Coach Norman Dale

“- Miss Anna Mongomery: I think Juan would want you to do well in school and in soccer.
- Kate Douglas: He wouldn't want me to do well. He'd want me to win.”
Olivia d'Abo - Miss Anna Montgomery
Jessica Robertson - Kate Douglas

“- Irv: Dig where I'm coming from. I'm coming from two gold medals. I'm coming from nine world records in both the two and four-man events. I'm coming from ten years of intense competition with the best athletes in the world.
- Sanka Coffie: That's a hell of a place to be coming from!”
John Candy - Irv
Doug E. Doug - Sanka Coffie