Stan Mellor quotes

I was young and fearless in those days, but always enjoyed riding at Cartmel. They used to call me 'Cartmellor', probably because I kept coming back on a stretcher.
-- Stan Mellor

#Fearless #Jockeys #Riding

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless.

I wanted to be a jockey.

When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man

I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!