Quotes About Jockeys

#1. I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys.

Chantal Sutherland

#2. What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#3. In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud.

Gurney Norman

#4. Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.

Dick Beddoes

#5. Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Bill Vaughan

#6. It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of them ride a finish. Apart from a half-dozen, they look like coster boys sitting on top of donkeys' behinds, bashing about with shillelaghs.

Jack Leach

#7. I want to see more girls coming in to the sport. There were actually a lot in Canada when I was riding there, but we can let girls know that they can be jockeys. And if they can't be jockeys, why can't they be owners or trainers? We need to invite girls in.

Chantal Sutherland

#8. In the interest of clarity, we'll define talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, jockeys and NFL linemen).

Daniel Coyle

#9. Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad.

Chantal Sutherland

#10. From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.

Tony McCoy

#11. The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

Kevin Hart

#12. The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

Tom Udall

#13. Spider Jockey - spider jockeys are spiders that have a skeleton riding them. They rarely spawn, but if they do, unless you have a lot of arrows and a huge space, you need to run for your life.

Gerone Adams

#14. I considered the difference between the careful and the spineless, as well as their near equal association to number-jockeys.

B.V. Larson

#15. Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again.

Beryl Markham

#16. You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Tucker Max

#17. Many of us in the jockeys' room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race.

Tony McCoy

#18. Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

Ralph Richardson

#19. It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to starve themselves and spend hours in the sauna to lose a few pounds to be able to make a big-race ride.

Tony McCoy

#20. You know, I run the Vegas Deluxe website and that really is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And we have more stars going through this city with shows. We have more disc jockeys playing in nightclubs here, we have more parties, more of everything than any other city in the world. So it's non-stop.

Robin Leach

#21. Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

Joe Walsh

#22. When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

Art Garfunkel

#23. Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

Buddy Guy

#24. I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys
Off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Before they get up
I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn

Frank Zappa

#25. 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

#26. Spider Jockeys are one of only two mobs (along with Chicken Jockeys) that cannot move through portals.

Steve Adamson

#27. I get butterflies before going out to ride every day, but they disappear as soon as I am on a horse, and I think that is the same for most jockeys. Then it is just down to you and the horse, and there is a certain freedom in that.

Tony McCoy

#28. While he is universally remembered as Colonel Hogan, Bob Crane must be credited for paving the way for radio personalities and disc jockeys for generations to come.

Carol M. Ford

#29. All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.

Paul Merton

#30. When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

Mavis Leno

#31. Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train!

Sid Waddell

#32. I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

Arrigo Sacchi

#33. DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

Larry Lujack

#34. Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

Mark Cuban

#35. I was young and fearless in those days, but always enjoyed riding at Cartmel. They used to call me 'Cartmellor', probably because I kept coming back on a stretcher.

Stan Mellor

#36. Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start.

Carol M. Ford

#37. A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

Dick Francis

#38. Bob Crane's advancement to KNX is the stuff of legend.

Carol M. Ford

#39. Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

Jean Giraudoux

#40. I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.

Jesse Eisenberg

#41. I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

Noel Whitcomb

#42. I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

Shelley Winters

#43. When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man

Eddie Arcaro

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

Gilbert Harding