72 Derby Quotes

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Famous Derby Quotes

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There's no advantage or disadvantage for either side. — Jurgen Klopp

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game. — Jurgen Klopp

It is a human demolition derby! — Jim Ross

Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby. - Paul Ince

Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby. — Paul Ince

The Manchester Derby is bigger and more important than El Classico. — Diego Maradona

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. — Henny Youngman

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph. — Benjamin Disraeli

The thoroughbred wanderer — Sir Richard Francis Burton

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump. — Jose Mourinho

Black beauty - he's a dark horse. - Tim Vine

Black beauty - he's a dark horse. — Tim Vine

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United. — Jurgen Klopp

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. — Oscar Wilde

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian. — Valentino Rossi

Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them — George Best

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him. — Jeffrey Bernard

Short Derby Quotes

  • If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54. — Bill Shoemaker
  • Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much. — Daniel S. Greenberg
  • You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred. — Joe Torre
  • The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city. — Brendan Rodgers
  • You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby. — Jim Leyland
  • When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since. — Lester Piggott
  • Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different. — Trevor Brooking
  • After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race. — Lester Piggott
  • I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it. — Pat Day
  • Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses. — Dennis Sharp

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Kentucky Derby Quotes

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'! — Irvin S. Cobb

In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed. — Hunter S. Thompson

To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby. — Bob Lewis

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it. — Hunter S. Thompson

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me. — Matt Gonzalez

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More Derby Quotes

The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred. — Federico Tesio

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. — Charlie Chaplin

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. — Charlie Chaplin

I've been in one Derby, and this is my third Belmont. But I've never thought of the fact that I haven't won a Triple Crown race. I'm not like that. I always look at the sunshine of things. — Julie Krone

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence. — John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car. — John Waters

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. — Agnes Repplier

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here. — Richard H. Davis

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win. — Beck

I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage. — Kevin Moffett

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today. — Alex Ferguson

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign. — Hugh Sidey

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie. — Drew Barrymore

Remember the people in the back streets of Derby. — Arthur Christiansen

Suddenly, I win the derby and people are talking about England again. It is absolutely pathetic — Stuart Pearce

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves — John Mallory Asher

The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether — Ingrid Newkirk

Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions... — Woody Allen

Chesterfield 1, Chester 1. Another score draw in the local derby — Des Lynam

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES. — George Canning

The rules of the track work well for life. Roller derby is life in a tiny circle. You can only go forward, even if you find yourself turned around, facing the wrong way. There's speed, unpredictability, and danger. You can't be sure what's going to happen, you don't always know when you'll stop, and it appears most people are out to get you. You will fall. You will get hurt. But you will get up again. — Pamela Ribon

How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut

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