Thoroughbreds Quotes - Page 2

• We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

  Jim Bouton

  Animal, Player, Yankees

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• During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, Horse, Distance

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• Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Horse, Children, Texas

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• The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,
  The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
  Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
  Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;
  Great nations blossom above,
  A slave bows down to a slave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Loyalty, Pride, Soldier

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.581, Simon and Schuster

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• A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.121, David M Gross

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• Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Dog, Blood

  Don Marquis (1922). “The Revolt of the Oyster”

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• Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

  James Russell Lowell

  Oats, Blood, Spurs

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• Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.

  Davy Jones

  Couple, Race, Weather

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• After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough.

  Sam Shepard

  Couple, Father, Fall

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• The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Horse, Animal, Race

  "Thoroughbreds: From Elite to Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 5, 2011.

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• As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dog, Men, Law

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• The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets.

  Damon Thayer

  Sports, Kentucky, Racing

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• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Horse, Ambition

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• Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

  Mike Patton

  Environmental, Educator, Slaughter

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• Raúl is a born goal-scorer. He was always in the right place at the right time. He was a great professional – one of the best to emerge from our country. His dedication, discipline and talent were superb. To talk about Raúl is to talk about a thoroughbred striker. He is, perhaps, one of the last true center forwards produced by El Salvador.

  Mauricio Cienfuegos

  Country, Dedication, Discipline

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• It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

  Peter Porter

  Sports, Proud, Innocence

  Peter Porter (1961). “Once bitten, twice bitten: poems”

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• Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

  Dennis Quaid

  Running, Horse, Animal

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• Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Horse, Race, Europe

  "End horror of horses led to slaughter" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2010.

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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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