Bill Shoemaker famous quotes

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
-- Bill Shoemaker

#Motivational #Athlete #Race

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
-- Bill Shoemaker

#Success #Congratulations #Athlete

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
-- Bill Shoemaker

#Winning #Nine #Way

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.
-- Bill Shoemaker

#Desire #Want #Littles

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
-- Bill Shoemaker

#Winning #Kentucky #Masters

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.
-- Bill Shoemaker

#Horse #Needs #Knows

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.