Ian Millar Quotes

#1. The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.

Ian Millar

#2. The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

Tim O'Brien

#3. I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.

Conor McGregor

#4. I mean, not that I killed her just to get the car, or anything.

MaryJanice Davidson

#5. I want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I'm on this planet.

Madonna Ciccone

#6. Peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

Mary Heaton Vorse

#7. When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.

Ian Millar

#8. Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

Samuel Goldwyn

#9. I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I'll ride for four, five hours a day. So I'm on the move all the time, and I think that's the key. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. That's the law of physics.

Ian Millar

#10. As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used ... it's virtually unrecognizable.

Ian Millar

#11. In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.

Ian Millar

#12. I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

Deidre Hall

#13. Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

David Mitchell

#14. You chose to stop acknowledging a world that has treated you foully. What's saner than that?

Mindy McGinnis

#15. I can't change the past so why does it still bother me?" -Malledy

Nancy Richardson Fischer

#16. There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.

Katie McGarry

#17. It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

Ian Millar

#18. Do you trust me Ana?"
Ana! "Yes,I do."I respond spontaneously, not thinking ... because it's true-I do trust him.
"Well,then"he looks relieved. "The rest of this stuff is just details"
"important details

E.L. James

#19. I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.

Doug Stanhope

#20. I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

Erin Brockovich

#21. I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

Ian Millar

#22. My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.

Ian Millar

#23. I glanced heavenward and asked for help to stop acting like a complete idiot around Niko. If this was how my ancestors responded to sexy men, it was a wonder we'd ever propagated.

Rebecca Chastain

#24. It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.

Ian Millar

#25. I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

Ian Millar

#26. I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.

Ian Millar

#27. If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

Ian Millar

#28. A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

Ian Millar