Seabiscuit (2003)

Tobey Maguire: Red Pollard

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Quotes 

• Red Pollard : [Last line, narrating]  You know, everybody thinks we found this broken-down horse and fixed him, but we didn't. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way we kinda fixed each other too.

• Charles Howard : You could be crippled for the rest of your life.

  Red Pollard : I *was* crippled for the rest of my life. I got better. He made me better. Hell, you made me better.

• Red Pollard : That's as much my horse as it is yours.

• Sam : You sure that leg'll hold you?

  Red Pollard : He's a 1200 pound horse, Sam. I'm an afterthought.

  Sam : No, I meant your leg.

• George Woolf : Pretty small, ain't he?

  Red Pollard : He's gonna look a lot smaller in a second, Georgie.

• California Doctor : If he breaks it again, it's possible he could never walk again.

  Red Pollard : He just said it's possible. Well, hell, anything's possible. We've proved that already.

• [Red is not eating his food at the dinner table] 

  Charles Howard : Go ahead, eat.

  Red Pollard : I'm not that hungry.

  Charles Howard : Sure, you're not.

  Red Pollard : It's just a lot of food.

  Charles Howard : I'd rather have you strong than thin.

• [Upon entering Samuel Riddle's stables] 

  Red Pollard : Jesus Christ. I want to be a horse.

  Tom Smith : You're almost big enough.

• Red Pollard : Brick by brick, my citizens. Brick by brick.

• George Woolf : You know, if you did more riding and less talking you might start winning some races.

  Red Pollard : I got two bucks says I beat you in this one.

  George Woolf : I'm not sure you do but I got five bucks says that you don't.

• Reporter : Awful lotta hoopla for such a little horse.

  Red Pollard : Though he be but little, he is fierce.

  Reporter : What's that?

  Red Pollard : That's Shakespeare, boys, Shakespeare.

• Red Pollard : Morning.

  Tom Smith : What's all this?

  [motions towards pile of boxes Red is sitting on] 

  Red Pollard : It's beer! From an admiring public, pretty good too, more in there.

  [indicates Seabiscuit's stall] 

  Tom Smith : [looks in stall]  Where's the horse?

  Red Pollard : [amused smile]  Signing autographs.

• [George has awoken Red after losing a fight] 

  Red Pollard : Did I lose?

  George Woolf : Oh no, you clobbered him.

• [after losing a photo finish horse race] 

  Red Pollard : It's not my fault. Not this time.

  Tom Smith : I told you, look out for Rosemont!

  Red Pollard : I thought I had it!

  Tom Smith : You stopped ridin' him!

  Red Pollard : I couldn't see him!

  Tom Smith : What the hell are you talking about? He was flyin' up your tail!

  Red Pollard : Yeah, well, I can't...

  Tom Smith : What?

  Red Pollard : ...SEE out there!

• Red Pollard : How far do you want me to take him?

  Tom Smith : Till he stops.

  Red Pollard : Okay... Sounds like a pretty good ride.

  Tom Smith : Hope so.

• Tom Smith : Where is the horse?

  Red Pollard : [grins]  Signing autographs.

  Tom Smith : He's what?

  [cut to Charles Howard having Seabiscuit stamping his hoof on papers for a crowd] 

• Red Pollard : I'm fine George. I don't need your help and I sure as shit don't need your charity. Leave me alone.

• Riddle : [On Radio talking about a match race with Seabiscuit]  It wouldn't be fair to us. It wouldn't be fair to them either. You wouldn't put Jack Dempsey in the ring with a middle-weight would you?

  Red Pollard : Middle-weight? I'll kill him. I'll knock his goddamn block off. He's chicken, that's what it is. I mean, middle-weight?

• Red Pollard : This isn't just any race. This is the Santa Anita. I had that race. I was there.

  Charles Howard : I know.

• Red Pollard : A dream come true, walkin' you around. Hook you up to a plow, pull me around for a little while. Come on. You ever run in the money? Huh? Hey. Hey. You ever run in the money?

  [Horse Whinnies] 

  Red Pollard : I don't think so. Couldn't beat a human being, let alone another horse.

  [Scoffs] 

  Red Pollard : You goddamn sack-of-crap old plater. Probably the fastest you're gonna run in your entire life, you piece-of-shit old glue-pot. That's right.

• Mr. Pollard : Dickinson. We never know how high we are

  Red Pollard : I know that. I know it

  Mr. Pollard : Well?

  Red Pollard : We never know how high we are. Till we are called to rise.

  Red Pollard : And then if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies.

  Mr. Pollard : Excellent!

  [prompting] 

  Mr. Pollard : The heroism...

  Red Pollard : Right, right...

  Mr. Pollard : The heroism we recite Would be a daily thing.

  Red Pollard : That's it...

  Mr. Pollard : Did not ourselves the Cubits warp For fear to be a king!