Racing Quotes - Page 13

• CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.

  Michael Andretti

  World, Carts, Series

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• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Horse, Book, Thinking

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• You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

  Roger Waters

  Life, Running, Time

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• Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Teamwork, Years, Track

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• Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

  Ray Manzarek

  Men, Years, Mind

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• The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Perseverance, Mean

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• A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

  Christopher Poole

  Horse, Car, Machines

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• There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

  Stephen Hadley

  Looks, Funny Racing, Anxious

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• He's a very competitive competitor, that's the sort of competitor he is.

  Dorian Williams

  Funny Racing, Competitors

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• I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.

  Len Goodman

  Horse, Trying, Worst

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• On being asked by Channel 4's Derek Thompson if he owned horses - No, son. I don't like anything that eats while I sleep.

  Larry Hagman

  Horse, Sleep, Son

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• Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

  Clement Freud

  Way, Racehorses, Expensive

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• There is little to compare with the thrill of standing next to the creature in the winner's enclosure avoiding his hooves and receiving the congratulations of the press, your trainer and friends who backed it. What makes the experience so satisfying is that you, the owner, have had absolutely nothing to do with the horse winning.

  Robert Morley

  Horse, Congratulations, Winning

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• We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.

  Daniel Wildenstein

  Long, Born, Has Beens

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• What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Intelligent, Thinking, People

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• You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners' wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Girl, Weather, Work Out

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• A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

  Diane Crump

  Horse, Track, Dresses

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• Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes.

  Graham Goode

  Horse, Home, Judging

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• I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Horse, Fighting, Race

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• If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing it with your hands full of shopping. Then think about doing that for four and a half miles.

  Jenny Pitman

  Running, Horse, Thinking

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• The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

  Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae

  Horse, Class, Waste

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• After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Ears, Shotguns

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• There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

  Jackie Stewart

  Car, Ferrari, Enough

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• I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Driving, Speak, Wells

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