Here's a collection of some of my favorite quotes about horses and racing. Enjoy and feel free to add your own!
"A racetrack is a place where windows clean people." -- Danny Thomas
"Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog." -- Tim Conway
"Horse sense is a good judgment that keeps horses from betting on people." -- WC Fields
"No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse." -- Richard Sasuly
"A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook." -- Jack Leach
"I could cut through the infield and Ruffian would still beat me." -- Braulio Baeza
"I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs." -- Jockey Willie Carson
"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business." -- John Steinbeck
"Money, horse racing and women, three things the boys just can't figure out." -- Will Rogers
"They must get to the end and go, 'We were just here. What's the point of that?'" -- Jerry Seinfeld on what race horses must think.
"Why, I expect he is one of the dumbest horses I ever saw. He don't know the difference between 115 and 135 pounds." -- Trainer Henry McDaniel
"That horse isn't fast enough to run past me." -- Owner Willis Sharpe Kilmer
"Citation will win, because he can catch any horse he can see, and there is nothing wrong with his eyesight." -- Trainer Ben Jones
"I admire the Turf writers, because it must be tough to write about something you know nothing about." -- Jockey Bill Hartack
"His legs are barely long enough to keep his tail off the ground. He probably takes a hundred more strides than anyone else in the race, but he's harder to pass up than a third martini." -- Sports writer Jim Murray on Northern Dancer.
"He's the kind of horse that if he wants to go left and you want to go right, you go left." -- Forego's groom, Don Moore.
"I've never seen perfection before. Secretariat's only point of reference is himself." -- Turf writer Charles Hatton.
"Secretariat is everything I am not. He is young, he has lots of hair, he is fast, he has a large bank account and his entire sex life is before him." -- Cy Burick
"I would sooner train a good horse than be President of the United States." -- John E. Madden
"People have opinions. Horses have the facts." -- Trainer D. Wayne Lukas
Good Post!
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A Race Horse is probably the only animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.
Good one, Susan. Horse racing seems to lend itself to wonderful quotes like that. I think it's partially because there are so many colorful characters in the business!
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