Riders Quotes - Page 2

• My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

  Miguel Indurain

  Balanced, Calmer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

  Barry White

  Thank You, War, Stones

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

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• Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

  Martina Hingis

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

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• Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

  Saint Augustine

  Horse, Philosophical, Grace

  "De Libero Arbitrio" by Saint Augustine, (388 - 395).

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• I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

  Patton Oswalt

  Spring, Book, Years

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• I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

  Chris LeDoux

  Passion, Bulls, Admire

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• I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

  Davy Jones

  Couple, Years, Challenges

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• And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

  Cornelia Funke

  Writing, Dragons, Plans

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• Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

  Michael Biehn

  Bulls, Seven, Mags

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• Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Average, Three

  Buffalo Bill (1920). “An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill”, New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation

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• The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

  William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle

  Horse, Hands, Two

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• The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

  Buffalo Bill

  Journey, Average, Two

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Horse, Moments

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 36e, 1980.

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• Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

  Buffalo Bill

  Years, Two, Ponies

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

  Kyle Chandler

  Racing, Motorcycle, Riding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Beautiful, Nature, Brother

  Riders on the Earth "Bubble of Blue Air" (1978)

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• Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Healing, Riding Your Bike

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Knights, Horsemen

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• The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
  But reach for it... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.

  Rumi

  Horse, Night, Water

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Horse, Needs, Littles

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• The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony...a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.

  Walter Zettl

  Horse, Expression, Oneness

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• There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Character, Winning

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.50, Random House

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Sleep

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• A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Horse, World, Good Horse

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• Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild Angels. Jack Nicholson, all of them, they all had these images that Roger Corman fueled, and Easy Rider, it was a big surprise to understand how much creative influence Roger had. A lot of people dismiss him as just launching famous people's careers or being a penny pinching producer, but he's so much more than that.

  Alex Stapleton

  Angel, Men, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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