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Race Horses Quotes

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay. Lee Westwood
At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig. John Steinbeck
Next day, as the Ferris wheel was being taken apart and the race horses were being loaded into vans and the entertainers were packing up their belongings and driving away in their trailers, Charlotte died. The Fair Grounds were soon deserted. The sheds and buildings were empty and forlorn. The infield was littered with bottles and trash. Nobody, of the hundreds of people that had visited the Fair, knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she... E. B. White
Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig. John Steinbeck
Joely Fisher quote: "I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world."
I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world. Joely Fisher
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg. Jack Klugman
Lord Kelvin quote: "Large increases in cost with questionable increases in..."
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. Lord Kelvin
Roger Kahn quote: "Horse racing is animated roulette."
Horse racing is animated roulette. Roger Kahn
On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with the very elements; wrapped in the whirling blast of the north wind, the beast embodied the icy breath of winter. Yukio Mishima
Nat King Cole quote: "The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's..."
The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally. Nat King Cole
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing. Cormac McCarthy
according to my figures I've only had 2500 pieces of ass but I've watched 12500 horse races, and if I have any advice to anybody, it's this: take up watercolor painting. Charles Bukowski
Ingre? pencil pursues ideal grace to the point of monstrosity: the spine never long and supple enough, the neck flexible enough, the thighs smooth enough, or all the curves of the body sufficiently beguiling to the eye, which envelopes and caresses more than it seems them. The Odalisque, with a hint of the plesiosaurus about her, makes one wonder what might have resulted from a carefully controlled selection, through the centuries, of a breed of woman specially designed for pleasure? as the... Paul Valery
Mark Helprin quote: "A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can..."
A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing. Mark Helprin
The brutes do not admire each other. A horse does not admire his companion. Not that there is no rivalry between them in a race, but that is of no consequence; for, when in the stable, the heaviest and most ill-formed does not give up his oats to another as men would have others do to them. Their virtue is satisfied with itself. Blaise Pascal

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