Colonel Waldron - The English Quotes in Victory (1981)

[Eastern European players have been brought from labor camps to play on the team]

Capt. John Colby - The Players: England: They're all great players.

Colonel Waldron - The English: They WERE.

[the camera focuses on the five men, frail and starved, dressed in filthy rags]

Colonel Waldron - The English: [angrily] You are a naive fool, Colby. Insisting on great players? Von Steiner has sent you five skeletons. Guarantees that you'll turn up in Paris for his propaganda victory.

Capt. John Colby - The Players: England: Colonel, I...

Colonel Waldron - The English: The Germans are doing their job very well. London knows. We heard it on the news. It's in all the papers. They're calling it another German lie. London is saying that no British officer would ever be involved in such a game.

Capt. John Colby - The Players: England: London is saying, Colonel? What about those poor bastards there? Do we send them back to the labor camps?

Colonel Waldron - The English: That's a very good question, Colby.