Lester Piggott Quotes

#1. Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder .

Ilana Mercer

#2. On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

Lester Piggott

#3. I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.

Melissa Bank

#4. Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

Lester Piggott

#5. In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Norman McLaren

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Lester Piggott

#9. In recent months, the emotional aspect has become as necessary to me as the physical. It amuses me, this strange quirk of mine. I want my little captive to love me, to care about me. I want to be more than just the monster of her nightmares.

Anna Zaires

#10. I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

Rashida Jones

#11. Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

Lester Piggott