Horse Training Quotes

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.

I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

I've always loved horses.

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'

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

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

The best riders in the world with the best horses make it look so elegant and graceful. When you watch it done well, it looks so easy that it's difficult for the public to understand how hard this really is.

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

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

A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.

Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'

All horses are different - sometimes they have a long neck - so you don't ride the same way on every horse. It depends on their body, and your body, but the object is to get down low so you're aerodynamic, so you call pull from the horse through the head. The best jockeys do that really well, and know how much to push.

My favorite horse was Zenyatta. She got me hooked.

I could hang with horses all day.

I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'

Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.

Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.

I got to a point where I was doing county-level shows, but it was dressage that I really loved where, effectively, the horses are dancing. At one point, I was a groom for Hannah Esberger, who has competed for Great Britain and has seven national championship titles.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.