Pieres Quotes

#1. If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.

Facundo Pieres

#2. We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.

Facundo Pieres

#3. I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.

Facundo Pieres

#4. In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.

Marguerite Duras

#5. The world had gone horribly, completely wrong and the only way open to them was to keep walking forwards.

Moira Katson

#6. My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

George R R Martin

#7. Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.

Scott Weiland

#8. I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.

Facundo Pieres

#9. When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.

Facundo Pieres

#10. Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

Facundo Pieres

#11. Buenos Aires is less than an hour's drive from the ranch, and in the evening, we might meet friends for dinner there. I get recognised a bit, but I'm lucky that polo isn't as popular as other sports.

Facundo Pieres

#12. It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Alice Hamilton

#13. In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.

Facundo Pieres

#14. There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

Anne Enright

#15. When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

Facundo Pieres

#16. I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

Facundo Pieres

#17. Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.

Claire Denis

#18. I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.

Facundo Pieres

#19. We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

Facundo Pieres

#20. I'm one that likes to collaborate.

Christina Aguilera

#21. Why is such a bad thing to die?

Han Kang

#22. It takes two flints to make a fire.

Louisa May Alcott