You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig. — Bob Akin
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. — Henny Youngman
A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential. — Leonard Nimoy
Short Race Horses Quotes
Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. — Will Rogers
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. — Ernest Hemingway
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. — W. C. Fields
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. — Bud Flanagan
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. — John Steinbeck
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. — Damon Runyon
Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong. — Monty Roberts
Long distance tells you a horse's real strength; Time tells you a person's true heart. — Changpeng Zhao
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Christopher Morley
Race Horses Image Quotes
Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.
Race Horses Quotes
The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage. — Dean Martin
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. — Bradley Whitford
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
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. — Robert Smith Surtees
Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse. — Juan Manuel Fangio
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office. — Andrew Carnegie
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said: Faster horses...
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. — Cary Grant
My horse's jockey was hitting the horse. The horse turns around and says "Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!" — Henny Youngman
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.' — Carroll Shelby
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. — Jesse Owens
But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless. — Elizabeth Hand
You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running. — Terri Farley
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away. — American Proverbs
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. — Marcus Aurelius
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free. — John Denver
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span. — Jack London
During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast. — Marty Liquori
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. — Thomas Fuller
Horse Racing Quotes
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. — Will Rogers
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse. — John Quincy Adams
If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat. — Dick Butkus
I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too. — John Masefield
Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus. — Jean Rook
I don't mind when my horse is left at the post. I don't mind when my horse comes up to me in the stands and asks, "Which way do I go?" But when the horse I bet on is at the $2 window betting on another horse in the same race... — Henny Youngman
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg. — Jack Klugman
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. — Jeffrey Bernard
Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out. — Will Rogers
If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race. — P. G. Wodehouse
Thoroughbred Horses 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
You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred — Buddha
I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks. — Wilford Brimley
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action. — D. H. Lawrence
Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride. — Terry Bradshaw
Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity. — Dave Ramsey
The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear. — Jesse Owens
Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children. — Patricia Schroeder
Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate. — Dennis Quaid
Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia. — Jane Velez-Mitchell
Racetrack Quotes
For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack. — Jackie Stewart
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it. — Cale Yarborough
I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car. — Murray Walker
Kyle Busch has got to be the loneliest NASCAR driver ever. He's led so many laps he never sees anybody in front of him for two-thirds of the race. He just sees clean racetrack...He's the Maytag guy. — Kyle
It's an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you're the best. — Denny Hamlin
I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate. — Sterling Marlin
It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack. — Charlie Kimball
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack. — Chris Martin
Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack. — Maureen O'Hara
I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks. — Sylvia Plath
Horses Quotes
Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion. — Buck Brannaman
Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds — Genghis Khan
Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena. — Buck Brannaman
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence. — Alexander Hamilton
I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose
of some horse that looked good to me. — Al Capone
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel. — Buck Brannaman
Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse. — George Cukor
There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town. — Brock Lesnar
Good Horse Quotes
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. — Daniel Boone
When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again. — Jimmy Buffett
I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers. — Steve Kanaly
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way. — Wesley Willis
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa Who knows most, knows least. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. — Cormac McCarthy
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same. — John Tyler
A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper. — Monty Roberts
If the rider is no good, it’s the horse’s fault. — German proverbs
I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do. — Wilford Brimley
Galloping Horses Quotes
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses. — J. Frank Dobie
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. — Oscar Wilde
I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like." — Andre Breton
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
dancing. — Honore de Balzac
Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him — Rumi
Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away. — Selma Lagerlöf
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world — Gustave Flaubert
There where the course is,
Delight makes all of the one mind,
The riders upon the galloping horses,
The crowd that closes in behind. — William Butler Yeats
The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day. — Fanny Kemble
The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him. — Rumi
Horse Riding Quotes
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. — Winston Churchill
Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it. — Ashley Judd
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh, hey, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh... — James Pierpont
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering. — Patrick Stewart
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever. — Richard Brautigan
A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities. — Nuno Oliveira
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! — Nicholas Evans
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. — Johnny Bench
I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. — George Herbert
Race Car Quotes
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae
Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. — Enzo Ferrari
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you. — Jeremy Clarkson
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts. — Ferdinand Porsche
It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. — Jackie Stewart
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio. — Juan Manuel Fangio
If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. — Mark Donohue
The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses. — Galileo Galilei
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information. — Edward Abbey
A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track. — Diane Crump
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses. — Ezra Pound
Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe. — Robert Jordan
Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too. — Frank Schaeffer
Any horse can win on any given day. — Angel Cordero, Jr.
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
In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you. — Otto von Bismarck
My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side. — Reggie Bush
The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you. — Benjamin Graham
Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.' — Eddie Izzard
I horse ride. I find it is the best way to maintain my fitness and stay physical. I have to practise anyway for my equestrian front. I do dressage and schooling too. I also do physical training where I work on my neck and upper body strength. Racing is a high endurance sport and you are in the car for a long time so this area is crucial. — Liz Halliday
I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family. — Barry Pepper
It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards. — Jesse Owens
[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race! — Ernest Hemingway
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. — Dick Schaap
It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else. — Gracie Allen
Politics: a Trojan horse race. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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