Clare Balding famous quotes

06-15-2025

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.
-- Clare Balding

#Horse #Mirrors #Welcome
I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.
-- Clare Balding

#Needs #Hungry #Good Food
I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.
-- Clare Balding

#Passion #Knitting #Interesting
The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.
-- Clare Balding

#Important #Quality #Partners
Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.
-- Clare Balding

#Attitude #Children #Kids
I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.
-- Clare Balding

#Golf #Play #Awful
I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.
-- Clare Balding

#Hate #I Hate #Minutes
I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
-- Clare Balding

#Horse #Growing Up #Grows
I've never been particularly maternal.
-- Clare Balding
I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.
-- Clare Balding

#Kids #Thinking #Should
It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.
-- Clare Balding

#Writing #Boring
I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.
-- Clare Balding

#Laughing #Abuse #Homophobic
Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up.
-- Clare Balding

#Gay #Realizing
I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.
-- Clare Balding
I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
-- Clare Balding

#Gay #Gay Marriage #Campaigns
I have learned not to take too much notice of those who disapprove of my lifestyle choices, because I know that I was not designed to be part of the crowd. If I am different, I make no apology, and I hope that others will have the courage to be themselves and stand up for what they believe in, fight for those who need protection, love who they want to love, and be proud of it.
-- Clare Balding

#Believe #Fighting #Apology
I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.
-- Clare Balding

#Horse #Powerful #Kindness
I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.
-- Clare Balding

#Interesting #Decision #Challenges
I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.
-- Clare Balding

#Thinking #Ambitious #Adjectives
Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.
-- Clare Balding

#Sports #Helping #Breaking Down
A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.
-- Clare Balding

#Dark #Despair #Depth
Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.
-- Clare Balding

#Dad #Thinking #Guy
I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.
-- Clare Balding

#School #Thinking #Common
Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
-- Clare Balding

#Boring #Fitting #Whole Life
I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.
-- Clare Balding

#World #Want
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.
-- Clare Balding

#Swimming #Cycling #Games

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