Kentucky Derby Quotes:

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

- Bill Shoemaker

topic: Winning, Kentucky, Masters, Kentucky Derby, Derby

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

topic: Sports, Wrestling, Fighting, Kentucky Derby, Derby

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

- Joe Torre

topic: Winning, Kentucky, Thoroughbreds, Kentucky Derby, Derby

To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.

- Bob Lewis

topic: Horse, Winning, Kentucky, Kentucky Derby, Derby

In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Race, Kentucky, Oakland, Kentucky Derby, Derby

Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.

- Dennis Sharp

topic: Horse, Twilight, Winning, Kentucky Derby, Derby

You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby.

- Jim Leyland

source: Source: www.usatoday.com

topic: Running, Kentucky, Mules, Kentucky Derby, Derby

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

- Matt Gonzalez

source: "Catching up with {hellip} Matt Gonzalez". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2009.

topic: Winning, Boys, Kentucky, Kentucky Derby, Derby