Thoroughbred Quotes

#1. To see a thoroughbred racehorse up close is to see a supreme example of a living piece of art.-Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#2. What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.

Herb Brooks

#3. I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

Wilford Brimley

#4. Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

James Russell Lowell

#5. It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

Peter Porter

#6. The lad is surprisingly strong and can turn a game with his incredible acceleration before applying a world-class finish. You can't kick Messi out of a game- he rides tackles like a thoroughbred horse.

Osvaldo Ardiles

#7. The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,
The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;
Great nations blossom above,
A slave bows down to a slave.

William Butler Yeats

#8. The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.

Jesse Owens

#9. Murder is the thoroughbred stable. Murder is a shine and a dazzle, a smooth ripple like honed muscle, take your breath away. Murder is a brand on your arm, like an elite army unit's, like a gladiator's, saying for all your life: One of us. The finest.

Tana French

#10. I never heerd ... nor read of nor see in picters, any angel in tights and gaiters ... but ... he's a reg'lar thoroughbred angel for all that.

Charles Dickens

#11. Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

David Cassidy

#12. Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

Don Marquis

#13. I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Gordon Ramsay

#14. Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

Patricia Schroeder

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

Joe Torre

#16. No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.

Tom Thomson

#17. When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

Patricia Neal

#18. If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

Zig Ziglar

#19. As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

Gelett Burgess

#20. The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

Austin O'Malley

#21. A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Virginia Woolf

#23. Stolid pack-animals are much more fit for carrying loads than thoroughbred horses: who ever subdued their noble speed with a heavy burden?

Seneca.

#24. You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

Gautama Buddha

#25. There's only one creature in the world better than the man who is a thoroughbred. It is the woman who is a thoroughbred.

Anonymous

#26. 1. I'm brilliant
2. I'm charming
3. I'm hung like a thoroughbred
4. I've stopped all philandering
5. I'm highly skilled, as you've learned the other night.
P.S. Stop staring at my hands. I know what you want me to with them.

K.A. Tucker

#27. The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets.

Damon Thayer

#28. Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

Nigel Mansell

#29. Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

Mike Patton

#30. It was among the knowledgeable others that one hoped to be talked about and admired. It was not impossible - the world of squadrons is small. The years would bow to you; you would be remembered, your name like a thoroughbred's, a horse that ran and won.

James Salter

#31. Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

Terry Bradshaw

#32. I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

John Galsworthy

#33. The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

Federico Tesio

#34. After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough.

Sam Shepard

#35. The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

Diane Ackerman

#36. The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

Emily Post

#37. A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing.

Mark Helprin

#38. During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

Marty Liquori

#39. Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

Dennis Quaid