Polo Quotes

• Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Sports, Golf, Play

  1990 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

  Kate Reardon

  Fashion

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• There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Depression, Witty

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• I'm completely hooked on polo.

  Mike Rutherford

  Hooked

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• You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Play, Soul, Poor

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• I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

  Stephen Moyer

  Kids, Italian, Sweaters

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• Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick.

  Rumi

  Kings, Looks, Sticks

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• A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, World, Tickets

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• Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Tennis

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• I tried water polo and my horse drowned... that was a nightmare.

  Lee Evans

  Horse, Water, Nightmare

  "Lee Evans: Wired and Wonderful - Live at Wembley". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Kids, Play

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• Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Racing, Farmers And Ranchers

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

  Marco Polo

  Heart, Breathe, Beats

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• Sex is the poor man's polo.

  Clifford Odets

  Sexy, Men, Poor

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• I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult

  Dr. Seuss

  Play, Littles, Used

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• In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Book, Order, Land

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• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  Marco Polo

  Voice, Stories, Ears

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• If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.

  Marco Polo

  Christian, Kings, Together

  Marco Polo, William Marsden (1926). “The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian”, Doubleday

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• They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, People, Together

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• We trusted the writers and showrunners [in Westworlds] so much because they're so brilliant and the writing's so incredible. It really was like playing Marco Polo, where you just kind of followed their voice and they would lead you to water.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Writing, Voice, Water

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Water polo would be much more interesting if they hadn't gotten rid of the horses.

  Dov Davidoff

  Horse, Water, Interesting

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• My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.

  Matthew Perry

  Girl, Running, Jeans

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• Who doesn’t have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka.

  Scott Disick

  Lakes, Shirts

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• I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.

  Marco Polo

  Christian, Book, Believe

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• A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.

  Devon Monk

  Sports, Horse, Hockey

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic on the Storm: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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