Top 1200 Horse Racing Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what's inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can't choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you're making war.

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

I loved playing in the fields back home and racing with my fellow students on the way to school.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful about. And maybe the path of least resistance is just not get on the horse. Maybe the path of least resistance is to get on a different horse - but we would never move forward in fear.

He is called the horse

O for a horse with wings!

It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

I'm not a one-trick horse.

I get the 'Daily Mirror,' purely and simply because they put the Racing Post prices in.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Home is where my horse is.

Every racing driver in the world dreams of making it to F1, there's only 22 spots on the grid.

My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race.

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

I was always interested in maybe being in Formula E as I said many times when I was still racing in F1.

For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

We live in a world in racing where the guy who's comfortable being uncomfortable does well.

I love the buzz of racing and being competitive and trying to push myself to be the best that I can be.

I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.

I think Stirling Moss represents everything that a racing driver should be and first of all, it's passion.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

We've got a lot of racing left, but when we're winning at places we're not supposed to, you better watch out.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

I think if you're a race car driver you want to succeed and be the best in your realm of racing.

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced

TO be racing in Formula One with Mclaren has been the ultimate goal for me. It's a dream come true.

I was much too late when I found out about my passion for motor racing. I was 18.

I'm a horse of a man!

When you get to stock racing, you have to be a little more patient and 'save your stuff' to be there at the end.

I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

I like being feminine, it's my way of not conforming to the stereotype that if you're a racing driver you don't care how you look.

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by: Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.

I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.

If we have close, great racing like we have, then the ratings will take care of themselves.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.

Running an airline is the most difficult job in the world. Racing was more dangerous for my life.

When I decided to stop as a racing driver in 2015, I knew I wanted to continue with the challenge of competitive motorsport.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed.

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

I'm a work horse.