Jockeys Quotes

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  • You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

    Girl   Emotional   Issues  
    Tucker Max (2010). “Assholes Finish First”, p.310, Simon and Schuster
  • When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man

    Men   Jockeys   Littles  
  • Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Humor  
    Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.193, Vintage
  • No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.

    Goodbye   Song   Farewell  
  • A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

    Heart   Jockeys   Fence  
  • Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

    Beautiful   Horse   Art  
  • I was young and fearless in those days, but always enjoyed riding at Cartmel. They used to call me 'Cartmellor', probably because I kept coming back on a stretcher.

  • I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

  • It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

  • A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.

  • Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • 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  
  • I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

    Party   Jockeys   Want  
  • Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

    Strong   Men   Ideas  
    Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.394, Delphi Classics
  • Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

    "Maria Bartiromo talks with Mark Cuban". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. November 16, 2013.
  • I wanted to be a jockey.

    Jockeys   Wanted  
  • You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

    Soccer   Sports   Horse  
  • I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

    Horse   Race   Jockeys  
  • No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

  • It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

    Pride   Males   Jockeys  
    Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”
  • In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud.

  • I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

    Horse   Dad   Jockeys  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

    Play   Jockeys   Records  
    "Buddy Guy: 'Blues Musicians Don’t Retire, They Drop'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 6, 2012.
  • I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs.

    Athlete   Lucky   Jockeys  
  • Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train!

    Valleys   Jockeys   Darts  
  • I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas and he would play the blues.

    Kings   Years   Play  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

    Sports   Tweed   Tarot  
  • I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

    Horse   Jockeys   Firsts  
    "Arrigo Sacchi, the magician of Milan, begins to build a new Italy". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2011.
  • Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

    Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”
  • Michael Roberts is a great rider and a great tactician; he was always using his brain in a race. His determination to become champion jockey was unswerving. He worked night and day, day and night to do it. You must have tunnel vision to become champion jockey: you must almost block everything else out, and he did that perfectly.

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