Downhill Racer (1969)

Robert Redford: Chappellet

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• Claire : Look, you finished fourth in one race. Don't expect to be given the world.

  Chappellet : [testily]  I don't expect to be given anything!

  Claire : Good. Get in the bus.

• Chappellet : If I could have started five places ahead - just five - then I would've at least had good snow. I wouldn't have lost my balance in the ruts. I wouldn't have had to pull so hard after...

  Claire : No.

  Chappellet : What do you mean "no"? If I'd have started in the first 15, I could've won it.

  Claire : No. You just weren't good enough. That's all. You lost your strength, and then the bumps took you out. That's it. That's all there was to it. You gotta' have your strength right up to the end. These guys aren't amateurs. They're national heroes. You're trying to beat them out of their way of life. You're just not strong enough.

  Chappellet : [a bit sarcastically]  Well, I'll take a Charles Atlas course this summer and build myself up, all right?

  Claire : [not finding the sarcasm terribly amusing]  Okay.

• Mr. Chappellet : Well, I just hope you don't end up askin' yourself the question some folks ask me. "What's he do it for?"

  Chappellet : Well, I'll be famous. I'll be a champion.

  Mr. Chappellet : [cynically]  World's full of'em.

• Chappellet : I'm on the U.S. Ski team, you know?

  Mr. Chappellet : Yeah. They had your picture on some paper in town.

• Mr. Chappellet : I got your postcard from France.

  Chappellet : Oh, yeah?

  Mr. Chappellet : Your cousin said to thank you for the stamps.

• Machet : You like Heads?

  Chappellet : Yeah, they're okay.

• Carole : Do you practice self-denial?

  Chappellet : Part of the time.

  Carole : Fascinating.

  Chappellet : Yeah? Really?

  Carole : Does it affect your strength?

• Carole : We never made love.

  Chappellet : What's wrong with him?

  Carole : Nothing. I just never wanted to.

• Austrian Journalist : Well, this is it, eh?. How do you feel?

  Chappellet : This is it.

  Austrian Journalist : What are your plans after the Olympics?

  Chappellet : This is it.