Jesse Owens Quotes

A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.

When the horse and the mare both trot, the colt seldom paces.

Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

Continue to spur a running horse.

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

Different horses have different personalities. They're just like people.

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What's the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?

I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.

The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.