William Lucking Quotes

I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

I take the kids horse riding every weekend at Quob Stables - the people there are lovely.

Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.

I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it.

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

Wouldn't it fun to be able to communicate with a horse while you were riding it?

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.

I would ride my horse to school.

When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

I had a donkey called Sally that I used to call my BMX bike. As a child, I wasn't a very good horse rider: I thought falling off was normal, and I would just get back on again. I didn't realise you weren't meant to fall off.

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

I rode a horse once when I was young, and I fell off. I never wanted to ride a horse again.

Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.

In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.

I might have been a jockey, you know. I started by riding horses bareback and holding on to the mane before they finally threw me off.

My devotion stemmed from my mom's love of horses. I have been riding since I could walk, and the fact that my mom knew everything about horses really helped my passion grow.

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.