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Jockeys Quotes By Tony McCoy

I get butterflies before going out to ride every day, but they disappear as soon as I am on a horse, and I think that is the same for most jockeys. Then it is just down to you and the horse, and there is a certain freedom in that. — Tony McCoy

Jockeys Quotes By Tony McCoy

It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to starve themselves and spend hours in the sauna to lose a few pounds to be able to make a big-race ride. — Tony McCoy

Jockeys Quotes By Gerone Adams

Spider Jockey - spider jockeys are spiders that have a skeleton riding them. They rarely spawn, but if they do, unless you have a lot of arrows and a huge space, you need to run for your life. — Gerone Adams

Jockeys Quotes By Steve Adamson

Spider Jockeys are one of only two mobs (along with Chicken Jockeys) that cannot move through portals. — Steve Adamson

Jockeys Quotes By Jay McInerney

hate being alone, but when I wake up in some guy's bed with dry come on the sheets underneath me and he's snoring like a garbage truck, I go, let me out of here. I slip out and crawl around the floor groping for my clothes, trying to untangle his blue jeans from mine, my bra from his Jockeys - Skip wears boxers, of course - and trying to be quiet at the same time, then slide out the door laughing like a seal escaping from the zoo and race home to where Jeannie has been warming the bed all night. Jumping in between the sheets and she wakes up and — Jay McInerney

Jockeys Quotes By Jean Giraudoux

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. — Jean Giraudoux

Jockeys Quotes By Tony McCoy

From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few. — Tony McCoy

Jockeys Quotes By Arnold Schwarzenegger

What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Jockeys Quotes By Paul Merton

All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds. — Paul Merton

Jockeys Quotes By Chantal Sutherland

I want to see more girls coming in to the sport. There were actually a lot in Canada when I was riding there, but we can let girls know that they can be jockeys. And if they can't be jockeys, why can't they be owners or trainers? We need to invite girls in. — Chantal Sutherland

Jockeys Quotes By Kevin Hart

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. — Kevin Hart

Jockeys Quotes By Daniel Coyle

In the interest of clarity, we'll define talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, jockeys and NFL linemen). — Daniel Coyle

Jockeys Quotes By Tom Stoppard

SEPTIMUS: My lady, I was alone with my thoughts in the gazebo, when Mrs Chater ran me to ground, and I being in such a passion, in an agony of unrelieved desire
LADY CROOM: Oh ... !
SEPTIMUS:
I thought in my madness that the Chater with her skirts over her head would give me the momentary illusion of the happiness to which I dared not put a face.
(Pause.)
LADY CROOM: I do not know when I have received a more unusual compliment, Mr Hodge. I hope I am more than a match for Mrs Chater with her head in a bucket. Does she wear drawers?
SEPTIMUS: She does.
LADY CROOM: Yes, I have heard that drawers are being worn now. It is unnatural for women to be got up like jockeys. I cannot approve. — Tom Stoppard

Jockeys Quotes By Jack Leach

It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of them ride a finish. Apart from a half-dozen, they look like coster boys sitting on top of donkeys' behinds, bashing about with shillelaghs. — Jack Leach

Jockeys Quotes By Robin Leach

You know, I run the Vegas Deluxe website and that really is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And we have more stars going through this city with shows. We have more disc jockeys playing in nightclubs here, we have more parties, more of everything than any other city in the world. So it's non-stop. — Robin Leach

Jockeys Quotes By Rae Earl

She reckons most of those models eat about one carrot a week, chew cotton wool like race horse jockeys to keep thin, and smoke cigarettes.
Apparently, they all look like crap by the time they are 30, and go out with the 'wrong' sort of men.. — Rae Earl

Jockeys Quotes By B.V. Larson

I considered the difference between the careful and the spineless, as well as their near equal association to number-jockeys. — B.V. Larson

Jockeys Quotes By Joe Walsh

Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear. — Joe Walsh

Jockeys Quotes By Art Garfunkel

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll. — Art Garfunkel

Jockeys Quotes By William Gibson

Lucas knows, yeah. The last seven, eight years, there's been funny stuff out there, out on the console cowboy circuit. The new jockeys, they make deals with things, don't they, Lucas? Yeah, you bet I know; they still need the hard and the soft, and they still gotta be faster than snakes on ice, but all of 'em, all the ones who really know how to cut it, they got allies, don't they, Lucas? — William Gibson

Jockeys Quotes By Jesse Eisenberg

I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw. — Jesse Eisenberg

Jockeys Quotes By Evelyn Waugh

The collection of sombre and bulky objects that had stood in his father's dressing room; indestructable presents for his wedding and twenty-first birthday, ivory, brass bound, covered in pigskin, crested and gold mounted, suggestive of expensive Edwardian masculinity
racing flasks and hunting flasks, cigar cases, tobacco jars, jockeys, elaborate meerschaum pipes, button hooks and hat brushes. — Evelyn Waugh

Jockeys Quotes By Carol M. Ford

Bob Crane's advancement to KNX is the stuff of legend. — Carol M. Ford

Jockeys Quotes By Frank Zappa

I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys
Off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Before they get up
I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn — Frank Zappa

Jockeys Quotes By Mark Cuban

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside. — Mark Cuban

Jockeys Quotes By Bill Vaughan

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. — Bill Vaughan

Jockeys Quotes By Dick Beddoes

Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave. — Dick Beddoes

Jockeys Quotes By Dick Francis

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it. — Dick Francis

Jockeys Quotes By Gilbert Harding

I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn. — Gilbert Harding

Jockeys Quotes By Eddie Arcaro

When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man — Eddie Arcaro

Jockeys Quotes By Stan Mellor

I was young and fearless in those days, but always enjoyed riding at Cartmel. They used to call me 'Cartmellor', probably because I kept coming back on a stretcher. — Stan Mellor

Jockeys Quotes By Tony McCoy

Many of us in the jockeys' room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race. — Tony McCoy

Jockeys Quotes By Carol M. Ford

Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start. — Carol M. Ford

Jockeys Quotes By Christopher Ryan

Though many strive to hide their human libidinousness from themselves and each other, being a force of nature, it breaks through. Lots of uptight, proper Americans were scandalized by the way Elvis moved his hips when he sang "rock and roll." But how many realized what the phrase rock and roll meant? Cultural historian Michael Ventura, investigating the roots of African-American music, found that rock 'n' roll was a term that originated in the juke joints of the South. Long in use by the time Elvis appeared, Ventura explains the phrase "hadn't meant the name of a music, it meant 'to fuck.' 'Rock,' by itself, has pretty much meant that, in those circles, since the twenties at least." By the mid-1950s, when the phrase was becoming widely used in mainstream culture, Ventura says the disc jockeys "either didn't know what they were saying or were too sly to admit what they knew. — Christopher Ryan

Jockeys Quotes By Atul Gawande

There are good checklists and bad, Boorman explained. Bad checklists are vague and imprecise. They are too long; they are hard to use; they are impractical. They are made by desk jockeys with no awareness of the situations in which they are to be deployed. They treat the people using the tools as dumb and try to spell out every single step. They turn people's brains off rather than turn them on. Good checklists, on the other hand, are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything - a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps - the ones that even the highly skilled professionals using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical. The power of — Atul Gawande

Jockeys Quotes By Arrigo Sacchi

I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first. — Arrigo Sacchi

Jockeys Quotes By Ralph Strangis

I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job. — Ralph Strangis

Jockeys Quotes By Terry Pratchett

Cheese runners shouted at it, tried to grab it, and flailed at it with sticks, but the piratical cheese scythed onward, reaching the bottom just ahead of the terrible carnage of men and cheeses as they piled up. Then it rolled back to the top and sat there demurely while still gently vibrating.
At the bottom of the slope, fights were breaking out among the cheese jockeys who were still capable of punching somebody, and since everybody was watching that, Tiffany took the opportunity to snatch up Horace and shove him in her bag. After all, he was hers. Well, that was to say she had made him, although something odd must have gone into the mix since Horace was the only cheese that would eat mice and, if you didn't nail him down, other cheeses as well. — Terry Pratchett

Jockeys Quotes By Chantal Sutherland

I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys. — Chantal Sutherland

Jockeys Quotes By Charles Yu

He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He thought it made him sound smarter, thought it made him sound like them, those code jockeys, standing by the coffee machine, talking faster than he could think, talking not so much in sentences as in data structures, dense clumps of logic with the occasional inside joke. He liked to stand near them, pretending to stir sugar into his coffee, listening in on them as if they were speaking a different language. A language of knowing something, a language of being an expert at something. A language of being something more than an hourly unit. — Charles Yu

Jockeys Quotes By Mavis Leno

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth? — Mavis Leno

Jockeys Quotes By Tucker Max

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys. — Tucker Max

Jockeys Quotes By Noel Whitcomb

I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey. — Noel Whitcomb

Jockeys Quotes By Tom Udall

The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation. — Tom Udall

Jockeys Quotes By Larry Lujack

DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves. — Larry Lujack

Jockeys Quotes By Chantal Sutherland

Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad. — Chantal Sutherland

Jockeys Quotes By Carol M. Ford

While he is universally remembered as Colonel Hogan, Bob Crane must be credited for paving the way for radio personalities and disc jockeys for generations to come. — Carol M. Ford

Jockeys Quotes By Kerry Condon

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. — Kerry Condon

Jockeys Quotes By Gurney Norman

In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud. — Gurney Norman

Jockeys Quotes By Sid Waddell

Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train! — Sid Waddell

Jockeys Quotes By Ralph Richardson

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run. — Ralph Richardson

Jockeys Quotes By Shelley Winters

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check. — Shelley Winters

Jockeys Quotes By Buddy Guy

Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free. — Buddy Guy

Jockeys Quotes By Beryl Markham

Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again. — Beryl Markham