Horse Race Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

Jeannette Walls

#3. You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

Malcolm Turnbull

#4. 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

#5. If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.

Arsene Wenger

#6. For gosh sakes, it's not a horse race as to how many business cards you can fling out there! What a turn-off.

Beth Ramsay

#7. The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.

Eric Hobsbawm

#8. Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.

John Sculley

#9. For the first 40 yards I am one of the fastest guys. After that, it's a horse race.

Ray Rice

#10. We expect a horse race, ... The reality is that competition drives all innovation. Intel did nothing with its 386 chip for five years until AMD introduced its own version in 1991.

Lou Dobbs

#11. Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

William J. Clinton

#12. I'm attracted to ensembles: you get a lot of really good moving pieces. It's sort of like a horse race in a way, especially when you know that everyone is on this collision course. It's like, 'Who's going to make it?' And you can put people together in unexpected pairings.

Noah Hawley

#13. I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

Jeannette Walls

#14. 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

#15. It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

Harry S. Truman

#16. On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

Doris Lessing

#17. CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse."

Ambrose Bierce

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. of as a machine to tell the "time of day," but it may be used to time a horse or a bicycler upon a race course, and then it becomes an

George C. Comstock

#21. In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.

Lew Wallace

#22. Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Charles Caleb Colton

#23. 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

#24. A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge a person as absolutely one way or another because you sell the human race short when you do.

Jim McGarrah

#25. I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

John Lennon

#26. At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig.

John Steinbeck

#27. 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

#28. Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Edouard Herriot

#29. The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

#30. 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

#31. I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Randeep Hooda

#32. The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

Gough Whitlam

#33. 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

#34. I managed to find a spot where we had the wind from astern, a steep head sea on our starboard quarter and the tide race through the narrows at the same time. A few hours of that and our fierce horse soldiers were like little lambs - sick little lambs.

John Flanagan

#35. 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

#36. Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ...

William Fawcett

#37. Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.

Susan Strasberg

#38. I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

Joely Fisher

#39. The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.

Jose Mourinho

#40. Never mistake movement for action ... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#41. 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

#42. The race for first season sire honours is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere with young stallion Showcasing setting the pace.

Australia

#43. Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.

Winston Churchill

#44. I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.
You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

#45. 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

#46. I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

Maggie Stiefvater

#47. I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

Gilbert Harding

#48. In other words, is "critical whiteness studies" the Trojan horse through which the study and perspective of whites will be recentered in studies of race and ethnicity?1

Birgit Brander Rasmussen

#49. Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

George Herbert

#50. I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course

George Harrison

#51. No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

Ernest Hemingway,

#52. 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 during play.

John Kessel

#53. She reckons most of those models eat about one carrot a week, chew cotton wool like race horse jockeys to keep thin, and smoke cigarettes.
Apparently, they all look like crap by the time they are 30, and go out with the 'wrong' sort of men..

Rae Earl

#54. 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

#55. I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three.

Robert A. Heinlein

#56. After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

Lester Piggott

#57. Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

Andrew Carnegie

#58. Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

Gautama Buddha

#59. To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

Blaise Pascal

#60. Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.

Frankie Dettori

#61. No matter what, my chest always tightens up before a race. A rush of adrenaline spikes all the way down my spine, and it's like I'm right there. Right on top of Kali, squeezed in that metal stall, looking out at the dirt with my heart in my throat. The starter opens the gates, and the bell rings.

Mara Dabrishus

#62. 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

#63. People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.

Steven Spielberg

#64. It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.

Tony McCoy

#65. Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.

Arthur Koestler

#66. In the race of life, don't be like a horse or car that can stop anytime; rather be like Earth and Time: unstoppable.

Vinita Kinra

#67. I would rather have a mule I can depend upon than a race horse that I can't depend upon.

Malcolm X

#68. 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