Rashard Lewis Quotes

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.

I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.

I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.

When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

I'm a pro-horserace guy.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

San Anita is a beautiful track. It's not too far from my house in L.A., and it's a beautiful place to go and watch the horses run.

My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

I've worked for some great trainers around the world, including Aidan O'Brien, Luca Cumani, Gai Waterhouse and Peter Moody.

As a kid, you're like, 'Do they have Preakness everywhere or just in Maryland?' You hear people talking about it, and it was like, 'Oh, everyone goes there to hang out and party.' I didn't even know it was a race until I got older.

I have never been to Ladies' Day at the Grand National. I've never been to any day there, truth be told, and unless they introduce a Scruffy People Who Believe Horse Racing to Be Deeply Cruel Day and pay me to attend I can't see that changing.

Horse racing is waning in popularity.

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

I was determined my 4,000th winner would be in the green and gold colours of J. P. McManus and trained by Jonjo O'Neill, who have been my greatest supporters.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

My aim and my passion is to own and breed race horses.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

I was a professional gambler. When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn't really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things: like, I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses.