Quotes About Kentucky Derby

#1. If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

Bill Shoemaker

#2. We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

George Eliot

#3. The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

Matt Gonzalez

#5. Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

Bill Gates

#6. I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

David Hobson

#7. Love changes everything. I proposed to my wife after we limped away from a physical altercation with another serial killer. Good times." "Feels

J.D. Robb

#8. When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

Kenny Troutt

#9. If she were meeting him for the first time and he looked at her like that, she would be spinning on her heel and on the run before you could say Kentucky Derby.

Thea Harrison

#10. Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.

Christopher Buckley

#11. Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation.

Rajneesh

#12. Decide to believe in God, who created you. Decide to believe in yourself, that you truly can reach goals - your goals

Rex D. Pinegar

#13. In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

Hunter S. Thompson

#14. To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.

Bob Lewis

#15. It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

Emma Goldman

#16. Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

Irvin S. Cobb

#17. The Boss will release the four horsemen." I swallowed hard. "I guess you're not talking about the Kentucky Derby kind of horsemen?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#18. You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

Joe Torre

#19. Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.

Dennis Sharpe