Jockeys Quotes

• A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Hero, Men

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Baseball, Umpires, Parking Space

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• My horse's jockey was hitting the horse. The horse turns around and says "Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Soccer, Sports, Horse

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• I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.

  Chantal Sutherland

  Very Good, Remembered

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• When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man

  Eddie Arcaro

  Men, Littles, Retiring

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

  Dick Francis

  Heart, Fence

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• 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

  Sports, Tweed, Tarot

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

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Horse, Firsts, Needed

  "Arrigo Sacchi, the magician of Milan, begins to build a new Italy". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.

  Edgar Degas

  Beautiful, Horse, Rewards

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• Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Lying, Falsehood, Misfortunes

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• 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

  Home, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Song Talk Interview". Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Horse

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• 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

  Athlete, Player, Tennis

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• It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Believe

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• Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Strong, Men, Ideas

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.394, Delphi Classics

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• Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.

  Davy Jones

  Boys, People, Racing

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• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humor

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.193, Vintage

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• I wanted to be a jockey.

  Davy Jones

  Wanted

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• I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs.

  Willie Carson

  Athlete, Lucky, Legs

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• I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

  Michael Chiklis

  Nice, Thinking, Four

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

  Lawrence Welk

  Order, Practice, Band

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

  Bill Cosby

  Pride, Males, Size

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• 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

  Father, Believe, Merit

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