Horse Racing Quotes

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  • I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

    Horse   Years   Racing  
    Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.
  • My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

    Horse   Fun   Racing  
  • My horse was so late getting home, he tiptoed into the stable.

    Funny   Horse   Home  
  • A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

    Horse   Track   Racing  
  • The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

    Horse   Book   Writing  
    "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights". Book by John Steinbeck, 1976.
  • A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Horse  
    "Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935".
  • Horse racing is animated roulette.

    Money   Horse   Gambling  
    Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books
  • Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  • The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

    Sports   Horse   Racing  
  • Any horse can win on any given day.

    Horse   Winning   Racing  
  • My horse's jockey was hitting the horse. The horse turns around and says "Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!"

    Funny   Horse   Humor  
  • A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

  • You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

    Horse   Racing   Needs  
  • On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

    Horse   Racing   Ears  
  • Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

    Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing
  • If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing it with your hands full of shopping. Then think about doing that for four and a half miles.

  • Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

    Horse   Thinking   Car  
  • They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.

    Horse   Dark   Night  
    Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan
  • I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

    "OSCARS Q&A: Alan Arkin". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. February 9, 2013.
  • England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

    Country   Horse   Kings  
    George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

    Funny   Horse   Crazy  
  • I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.

    Horse   Fighting   Race  
  • A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

    Horse   Order   Giving  
    "Lester the legend back to claim the limelight" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2007.
  • There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.

    Horse   Racing   Mind  
    William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.73, Library of Alexandria
  • Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

    Horse   Racing   Release  
  • After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

    Horse   Winning   Race  
  • Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes.

    Horse   Home   Judging  
  • My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

    Horse   Art   Reading  
    "Inside the Jockeys' Room with Gary and Chantal". America's Best Racing Interview, www.americasbestracing.net. January 24, 2014.
  • Horse racing is waning in popularity.

    "Mr. Ed, It’s What’s for Dinner" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.
  • That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!

    Funny   Time   Horse  
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