Top 453 Kentucky Derby Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on October 21, 2024.
[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
Kentucky's first responders and fire fighters are true public servants who keep our communities safe.
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.
The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.
Every derby match is different, just like every season is different.
Kentucky has long been Democratic at the state level but that trend had completely reversed in the Trump era.
I deeply wish to help move Kentucky and our country forward and I can assure you that I will continue to speak out on the important issues of the day.
Everybody wants to say that Kentucky fans are vicious or obnoxious. They're not. They're crazy in that they watch the tape of our games more than I do. But they're passionate and smart.
I am working to ensure major corporations stop putting profits ahead of the health and safety of our Kentucky families.
Now in a lot of rural towns in Kentucky, the school system is the heartbeat of the community, not to mention one of the major employers.
Matt Bevin has made it clear: he cares more about out-of-state CEOs than Kentucky's working families.
I was always different from people. Especially being from Kentucky, I always got made fun of.
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.
There were plenty of clubs wanting me but as soon as my agent Lee Robinson told me Derby were interested I had a good feeling.
I don't care if you believe in ghosts at all. I challenge you to go spend the night walking the halls of Waverly Hills in Kentucky, which is a terrifying place.
In Washington, Senator Paul has put his own ambition ahead of Kentuckians and is behind policies that would hurt Kentucky families.
My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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...
If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.
I grew up in Kentucky, and went to boarding school outside Boston at Phillips Academy Andover for two years.
Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Hollywood, and I went to places like The Derby. And, after I wrote it and was trying to get it made, I would go every week so I'd be good at dancing.
Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.
If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.
Our teachers and first responders spend their careers making Kentucky better, and they deserve the secure retirement they were promised.
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
I sing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' It's a country song. It's one of my favorites to sing.
When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.
I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
I want to thank the people at UMass, Memphis, and Kentucky for giving Ellen and I an opportunity to coach at three great institutions.
The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
Can I say this in a humble way - I don't need the money. If I stop coaching today at Kentucky, my toes are up, and I'm eating Cheetos, and I'm fine.
I'll always put the best interests of our people first - and that includes expanding gaming to create new opportunities here in Kentucky.
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
When I started buying my mother all these homes, like a second home in Kentucky, where I moved most of my family, they began to rely on my wallet.
I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music.
Went from Milwaukee, a small town in Milwaukee, to Kentucky. Nobody thought I'd survive there.
The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.
I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.
My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.
We need a new generation of leaders who can put their country over their political party to do what's right for Kentucky and are not bought off by special interests.
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
I grew up in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Harden County, which is not too far from the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
I was born in Kentucky and, while my family has deep roots there, I was an Air Force brat, and we followed my father to postings all over the world.
Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.
A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.
At Kentucky, that was my job - coming off screens, catch and shoot, spacing the floor - no hesitations. Just go right into my shot - don't focus on the defender.
I've always paid a lot of attention to the races that go on throughout the offseason, being the Snowball Derby, the Chili Bowl, Rolex 24; races that I admire and really enjoy watching.
In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
They want it all - all As, all wins by 20, and want the highest GPA. Don't coach at Kentucky if you can't accept that.
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.
Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.
