Derby Quotes

• Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Eye, Kentucky, Columnists

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• But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

  Alex Ferguson

  Scotland, Today, Unpredictability

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• 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

  Horse, Winning, Kentucky

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

  Bill Shoemaker

  Winning, Kentucky, Masters

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• Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.

  Trevor Brooking

  Football, Different, Today

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• The rules of the track work well for life. Roller derby is life in a tiny circle. You can only go forward, even if you find yourself turned around, facing the wrong way. There's speed, unpredictability, and danger. You can't be sure what's going to happen, you don't always know when you'll stop, and it appears most people are out to get you. You will fall. You will get hurt. But you will get up again.

  Pamela Ribon

  Hurt, Fall, Circles

  Pamela Ribon (2010). “Going in Circles”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly, I win the derby and people are talking about England again. It is absolutely pathetic

  Stuart Pearce

  Winning, Talking, People

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• How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nice, Credit, Alive

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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

  Jim Leyland

  Running, Kentucky, Mules

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves

  John Mallory Asher

  Twins, Tradition, Spires

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• Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

  Paul Ince

  Milan, Hard

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

  Joe Torre

  Winning, Kentucky, Thoroughbreds

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• I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sports, Empowering, Athletic

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• 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

  Sports, Wrestling, Fighting

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

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• It is a human demolition derby!

  Jim Ross

  Wwe, Demolition, Humans

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• Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...

  Woody Allen

  Marriage, Giving Up, Names

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.

  Lester Piggott

  Home, Cutting, Lawns

  2004 In the Observer, 30May.

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• 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

  Vegas, Race, Kentucky

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.36, Vintage

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• Chesterfield 1, Chester 1. Another score draw in the local derby

  Des Lynam

  Soccer, Score, Draws

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• But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with its pathetically-inadequate presence for the past 12 months - where the money has gone? You know, the £30m or so in prize money that every team, even the one at the bottom of the table from August to May, automatically receives by being in the Premier League... So what happened to that money? Or put another way, why was such a meaningless fraction of it spent on recruiting new players? It's one thing not to compete; it's quite another not to even attempt to do so.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

  Agnes Repplier

  Civilization, Tea, England

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Nuts, Play, Ties

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• I've been in one Derby, and this is my third Belmont. But I've never thought of the fact that I haven't won a Triple Crown race. I'm not like that. I always look at the sunshine of things.

  Julie Krone

  Horse, Sunshine, Race

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• 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

  Winning, Boys, Kentucky

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

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• I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Shoes, Pants, Hats

  "Charlie Chaplin and the Tramp: the birth of a hero" by Pamela Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2014.

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