Rider Quotes

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours.

In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal.

There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to ones self: The work is done. But just as one says that, the answer comes: The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains. The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

So did this horse excel a common oneIn shape, in courage, color, pace and bone.

...What a horse should have he did not lack,Save a proud rider on so proud a back.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse.

I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose;

for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me.

A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider.

Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.