Racehorses Quotes

• Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

  Ernest Hemingway

  People, Evil, Dignity

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

  Clement Freud

  Racing, Way, Expensive

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• Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

  Budd Schulberg

  Comfort, Dignity, Fighter

  "Barry Mcguigan: Brilliant Schulberg Budd was more than a contender", www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2009.

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• A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.

  Christopher Walken

  Differences, Missing, Ferrari

  Source: www.donshewey.com

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• The short amount of time I'm out on the runway is like going on a rollercoaster. It's such a happy, exciting feeling. I'm more like a racehorse ready to go - I just want to get out there.

  Erin Heatherton

  Feelings, Want, Runway

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• You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.

  Bob Akin

  Hard Work, Pigs, Racing

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• I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Song, Water, Theatre

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• A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

  Rene Burri

  Cameras, Digital, Checks

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• There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Names, May, Saint

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• A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Running, Horse, Giving

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.189, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

  George Lucas

  Competition, Contests

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• A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.

  Jack Leach

  Horse, Real, Should Have

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• What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Intelligent, Thinking, People

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• I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.

  Steve McManaman

  Football, Football Fan, Fanatics

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• I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wall, Tombstone, College

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

  Graydon Carter

  Men, Mind, Bars

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• Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Evil

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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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• Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

  Don King

  War, Animal, Men

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• In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Men, Generations, Recipes

  Quoted in Jean Renoir, Renoir My Father (1958)

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• We wait for the tortoises to come.  We wait for that lady who walks them.  That’s how art works.  It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse.  It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets.  We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, Waiting, Secret

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• Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

  Anais Nin

  Zoos, Wall, Eye

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• In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Years, Newspapers, Inches

  "Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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• I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.

  Sylvia Plath

  World, Most Heartfelt, Felt

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.

  Liza Minnelli

  Parent, Curiosity, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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