- Pat Mills: Are you really going to run in the Olympics?
- Billy Mills: Sure, why?
- Pat Mills: Oh, because everyone here says they'll do things and never do them. You're really doing something.
- Coach Bill Easton: [instructing Billy on his opponents] Now he thinks he almost got you! You gotta crush him, so he knows you're better!
- Coach Bill Easton: Well young man, when you run for me, you will run my way and that doesn't include easing up at the end. I think you have talent. I think you might be a fine runner, but you'd have to pay the price.