Thoroughbreds Quotes

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

  John Galsworthy

  Beautiful, Horse, Inspiration

  John Galsworthy (1937). “Glimpses & Reflections”

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• I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they don’t listen. They just run their own race. That’s what you have to do. Don’t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race.

  Marlo Thomas

  Running, Horse, Eye

  "Running My Own Race" by Julie Carlson Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• 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

  Play, Honor, His Love

  Emily Post (1945). “Children are People: And Ideal Parents are Comrades”

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• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  Pam Brown

  Beautiful, Dream, Horse

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• 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

  Inspirational, Hockey, Men

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Family, Friends

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• 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

  Heart, Giving, Speed

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• 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

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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

  Joe Torre

  Winning, Kentucky, Can't Win

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• You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

  Tucker Max

  Girl, Emotional, Issues

  Tucker Max (2010). “Assholes Finish First”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Men, Differences, Endurance

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Horse, Inspiration, Discipline

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• 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

  Country, Intelligent, Men

  Virginia Woolf (1942). “The death of the moth: and other essays”

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• 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

  Football, Horse, Team

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• 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

  Curiosity, Life Is, Hills

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage

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

  Nigel Mansell

  Sports, Home, Athlete

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• 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, sun-struck hills every day.
  Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
  and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
  life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.
  It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
  but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

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• We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

  Oswald Spengler

  Taken, Mean, Greatness

  Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.56, Routledge

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

  David Cassidy

  Dream, Passion, Racing

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• 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

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

  Dave Ramsey

  Beautiful, Money, Horse

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Nov 01, 2009

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• And I told you before, I'll sell you any of the thoroughbreds.” “I didn't make any of those thoroughbreds. I didn't make them what they are.” “You made all of them what they are.” I don't look at him. “None of them made me who I am.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Who I Am, Looks, Made

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.208, Scholastic UK

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• 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

  Horse, People, Use

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• 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

  Matter, Neighbor, Ifs

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• 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

  Sports, Horse, Athlete

  "Jesse Owens: Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, Heather Lehr Wagner, 2009.

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