Jockey Quotes

50 quotes by 44 authors

You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey. — Arrigo Sacchi
At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So… — Tim Conway
I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that… — William Shatner
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage. — Edouard Herriot
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take… — Steven Pressfield
I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first. — Arrigo Sacchi
Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over… — Davy Jones
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer — Leon Uris
The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall… — Tom T. Hall
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… — Noel Whitcomb
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. — Lester Piggott
A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it. — Dick Francis
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… — Edgar Degas
When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man — Eddie Arcaro
I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into… — Michael Chiklis
I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention… — Jesse Eisenberg
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… — John Kessel
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… — Koko Taylor
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. — Jean Giraudoux
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy… — Andrea Dworkin

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