Horse Quotes
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If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?
Blackie Sherrod
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The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.
Buck Brannaman
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Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team the Pittsburgh Steelers. It was a great ride.
Terry Bradshaw
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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot
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That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is....
Buck Brannaman
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Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.
Stephen Fry
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I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.
Tommy Cooper
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Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.
Buck Brannaman
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It's a process and it's a matter of understanding the horse and through any of these little projects you have a beginning, a middle and an end. And if you made up your mind early when he's still scared, you'd think that wasn't working at all. Sometimes it might get darker, before it gets dawn. You might have to work at it a little bit in order for it to come out the other side.
Buck Brannaman
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You allow a horse to make mistakes, the horse will learn from mistakes no different than the human. But you can't get him to where he dreads making mistakes for fear of what's going to happen after he does.
Buck Brannaman
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Theoretically the human is supposed to be the smart one so as you get acquainted with the horse, you explore what it's going to take for him to understand what you would like him do, with as little trouble as possible. You're trying to avoid conflict, not trying to create it.
Buck Brannaman
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Have you ever had sex with a horse?
Paul Merton
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And for a lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it's no different with a horse than with a kid...You can't always be the kid's best friend. First you have to be the parent.
Buck Brannaman
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Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.
James Cromwell
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You can't make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen.
Buck Brannaman
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The comforting thing to the horse is, is as you become more and more accurate, he knows you’re aware of him, and pretty soon because of that he’s aware of you more and more of the time.
Buck Brannaman
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
William Faulkner
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
Anthony Trollope
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Simply put; I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.
Buck Brannaman
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The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.
Thomas Bulfinch
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A good horse makes short miles.
George Eliot
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It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.
Brandon Mull
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What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
Harvey Cox
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With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.
Buck Brannaman