Lee Pearson Quotes

A good jockey has to be physically well balanced. They have to possess a strong upper body and a strong lower body. You've gotta have quick reflexes, and you've got to be incredibly coordinated. But it's you're instincts that have to be perfect. You can't be an exceptional rider without instincts.

I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

I cannot drive very well. I drive slow and very safe. I don't know cars that well.

There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.

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

You have to let the car do the job and try to trust it, try to understand what you are doing, try to be smooth, and try to be incredibly smart to set the car up, because that is the most important part.

I think I've lost that ability to slow things down - that ability drivers have to calculate what's coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.

I had one lesson with Devil's Horsemen, who do a lot of the horse-riding stuff for films. They train actors to look reasonable on horses. They do 'Game of Thrones', everything.

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

When I am not shooting, all my waking hours are dedicated to horse riding and gymming.

I don't just love riding; I love horses. I was in the field at my yard watching them gallop around and play the other day. That's what keeps me going, and sometimes it has to be something more than just winning.

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.

My mother grew up around horses and exposed my sister and I to riding early on. It was very important to her.

I am hopeless with machinery. I could never learn to drive a car except into a wall.

You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you.

We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.

The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.

I've driven cars worth $6 million and now I'm not as nervous because I do it a lot, but I have to keep my wits about me because if I touch anything or scrape one rim, anything could go wrong.

Every actor strives to be in the moment, and when you're on a horse, you constantly have to communicate with it and assert your authority.

Riding Valegro always makes you smile, so I enjoy it.

I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.

I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.

I think from a driving perspective, the great thing of being in a simulator a lot is that you can constantly work on areas. Of course it's not like being in a real car, and you always have to remember that, but it means there are all these things that you can work on.

I was riding every single day. I home-schooled because of horses.