quotes about Jockeys
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You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.
-- Arrigo Sacchi -
I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.
-- Arrigo SacchiSource : "Arrigo Sacchi, the magician of Milan, begins to build a new Italy". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2011.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
-- Calvin Trillin -
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A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.
-- Dick Francis -
When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man
-- Eddie Arcaro -
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
-- Edgar Degas -
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I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.
-- Gilbert Harding -
In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud.
-- Gurney Norman -
The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.
-- Kevin Hart -
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer
-- Leon Uris -
Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.
-- Mark Cuban -
I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.
-- Noel Whitcomb -
All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.
-- Paul MertonSource : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
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I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
-- Shelley Winters -
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 -
I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.
-- Chantal Sutherland -
DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.
-- Larry Lujack -