Victoria Pendleton Quotes

We keep horses. I have to keep working.

People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I feed horses and goats and sheep all day and, once in a while, come and talk about movies.

You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

Everything is work on the farm.

A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

We used to have a bull. A real bull. At that time, Jennifer Lopez was my neighbor. God bless her, she took it. But other neighbors did not like it, that we have a bull.

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

I have a pet goat.

I can't stand small babies. I would rather give birth to a kitten or a colt... a little pony.

I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.

My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line.

When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids.

I have delivered lambs, calves and foals on our farms over the years.

I work very physically. I don't like to intellectualize too much about what we're doing, or analyze it.

I've always really loved nature, I did a lot of horseriding as a young girl.

I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.

You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat!

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.