John Fusco Quotes

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

When the team is running away, I prefer to be on the seat with my hands on the lines rather than in front of the runaway.

There is, admittedly, a trend in popular history toward long books that bombard the reader with a fusillade of detail in the mistaken belief that accuracy is proportional to volume.

I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments.

I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'

I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.

I've been riding since I was maybe three or four. Ponies at first, and then I've really always been doing it since.

I've always loved horses.

To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.

When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.

If I could do anything, I'd ride horses all day.

I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.

When you use the whip, it makes the loudest crack. It's a very, very difficult weapon to use.

I'm not against competitive racing. I obviously grew up with horses.

It's going to be hard to ever have a horse to replace Valegro. He is a professor. I think he read the dressage book and learnt it all before he ever did it.

I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.

My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'

Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.

My role in 'Kashmora' required me to take horse riding lessons.

I love horse-riding - I have three back home in the U.K.

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

I rode a horse once when I was young, and I fell off. I never wanted to ride a horse again.

I wanted to be a horseback-riding trainer and to go to the Olympics as an equestrian.