Frankie Dettori quotes

Frankie Dettori quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.”
-- Frankie Dettori

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“I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.”
“I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."”
“I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.”
“I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”
“Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.”
“If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.”
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”

Source : Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”
“A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.”
“Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.”
“A race between Perry and Christie would test whether Americans would rather be executed or eaten.”

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