Facundo Pieres Quotes

I'm completely hooked on polo.

I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.

Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.

Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

I'm going to start a polo team with my friend, and we're trying to collect as many horses as we can. You have to find time for things you love.

I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.

I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.

Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.

I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.

I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.

When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.

I crossed paths with a horse that happened to change my life. That horse is Game On Dude, and what a horse! He's a soldier. Together we traveled the world. We won the Santa Anita Big Cap, Goodwood, almost won the Breeder's Cup Classic; we won the San Antonio, Hollywood Gold Cup and the Californian.

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

My symbol was always a polo player because I liked sports, and polo has a stylishness to it.

I started to ride when I was very young, and it's a sport I have practised for a very long time.

I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.

Polo is a quintessentially English sport. It stands for quality and sophistication and is recognised all over the world as such.

I feel like I was born to ride the track.

When I used to say I did dressage, I got blank looks. No one had a clue what I was on about.