Jockeys Quotes
49 quotes by 45 authors
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You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.
— Arrigo Sacchi
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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,…
— Kevin Hart
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Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.
— Ralph Richardson
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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
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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
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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
— Edouard Herriot
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The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming…
— Tom Udall
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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
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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…
— Tucker Max
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I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.
— Arrigo Sacchi
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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
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer
— Leon Uris
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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
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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
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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,…
— Jeffrey Bernard
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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
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A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.
— Dick Francis
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Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they…
— Dick Beddoes
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I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.
— Gilbert Harding
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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…
— Stan Mellor
Who Wrote These Jockeys Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 49 Jockeys Quotes, led by these top contributors: