Best Racehorses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.”

“I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.”

Looks Five Feet Hundred Thirty Pounds Inches Magnificent Eleven Racehorses

“A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.”

Ifs Matter Bigs Three Actors Differences Lines Missing Fine Percent Painful Good Actors Fine Lines Ferrari Chevy Cylinders Racehorses

Author:Christopher Walken

“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.”

World Felt Racehorses Most Heartfelt

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.”

Looks Made Shows Happens Parent Natural My Family Curiosity Frank Show Business Natural Things Thoroughbreds Racehorses

Author:Liza Minnelli

“A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.”

Cameras Checks Digital Digital Cameras Racehorses

Author:Rene Burri

“The short amount of time I'm out on the runway is like going on a rollercoaster. It's such a happy, exciting feeling. I'm more like a racehorse ready to go - I just want to get out there.”

Want Feelings Ready Amount Exciting Runway Rollercoaster Racehorses

Author:Erin Heatherton

“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”

World Littles Felt Streets College Wall Glory Gold Suits Cups Champion Footballer Tombstone Engraved Racehorses

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.”

Years Persons Subjects Newspapers Inches Columns Crooked Racehorses

Author:Laura Hillenbrand

“Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.”

“Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.”

Men Mind Every Man Bars Racehorses

Author:Graydon Carter

“The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.”

Has Beens Sports Figures Standing Starting Boards Barriers Controlled Packs Inspirational Sports Leather Silk Tarot Pageant Jockeys Racehorses Tweed

Author:Kevin Hart

“To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.”

Men School Ability Genius Sentences Drudgery Treadmills True Genius Racehorses

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.”

Ifs Men War Asks Animal Ask Me Extras Boxing Pounds Chavez Racehorses

Author:Don King

“I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.”

Song Turns Water Stage Dare Theatre Hats Fountain Tortoises Racehorses

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.”

Men Wells Known Generations Well Known Recipes Racehorses

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.”

Art Enough Waiting Walks Secret Patient Working It Be Patient Tortoises Racehorses

Author:Pat Conroy

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

Football Fanatics Football Fan Racehorses

Author:Steve McManaman

“Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.”

Way Expensive Racing Racehorses

Author:Clement Freud

“What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.”

People Thinking Trouble Intelligent Pity Owners Racing Fascism Breeding Racehorses

Author:Jeffrey Bernard

“A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.”

Should Real Behinds Should Have Horse Cooks Race Horses Racehorses

Author:Jack Leach

“You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.”

Ifs Hard Enough Hard Work Racing Pigs Racehorses

Author:Bob Akin

“A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.”

Giving Running Effort Millions Willing Horse Dollars Excellence Faster Winner Extras Consistently Second Place Extra Effort Racehorses

Book:Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness

Source: Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness

“Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.”

Grows Havens Comfort Dignity Fighter Consideration Pastures Racehorses

Author:Budd Schulberg

“Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.”

People Hard Shows Evil Dignity Breeding Racehorses

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition