Seabiscuit Quotes

Dutch Doogan I don't know. You still look pretty tall to be a jockey.

Red I've never been over 115.

Dutch Doogan Where'd you learn to ride like that?

Red Home.

Dutch Doogan Alright, here's the way it works. I pay you 10 dollars a week to ride. You owe nine dollars for your meal, six dollars to sleep in the stalls, three dollar tack fee. That's the deal.

Red How do I pay all that back?

Dutch Doogan You win.

Narrator For the first time in a long time someone cared. For the first time in a long time you are not Alone.

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

Tom Smith I told you, look out for Rosemont!

Red I thought I had it!

Tom Smith You stopped ridin him!

Red I couldn't see him!

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

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

Tom Smith What?

Red ...SEE out there!

Red ] ], I want to be a horse.

Tom Smith You're almost big enough.

Narrator The first time he saw Seabiscuit, the colt was walking through the fog at five in the morning. Smith would say later that the horse looked right through him, as if to say, "What the hell are you looking at? Who do you think you are?" He was a small horse, barely fifteen hands. He was hurting, too. There was a limp in his walk, a wheezing when he breathed. Smith didn't pay attention to that, he was looking the horse in the ].

Taglines A long shot becomes a legend.

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

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

Taglines The true story of a long shot who became a legend.

Taglines The hopes of a nation rode on a long shot.

Charles Howard Our horse is too small. Our jockey's too big. Our trainer's too old. And I'm too dumb to know the difference.

Tom Smith Every horse is good for somethin'.

Charles Howard Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack up and go home or keep fighting.

Tom Smith You don't throw a whole ] away just cause he's banged up a little bit.

Dutch Doogan A nose?! You lose a race a nose, you'd better fall off tryin'! Here!

Dutch Doogan Much these stalls down, every damn one of em!! A nose! For Christ's sake!

Red Pollard You know, everyone thinks we got this broken down ] and fixed him, but we didn't. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way, we fixed each other, too.

George Woolf Wanna know what I think?

Charles Howard Of course.

George Woolf I think it's better to break a man's leg than his ].