Equine Sports Quotes

We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.

When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition.

After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

My two great loves are music and horses.

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

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.

My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.

I love fashion, but it's always been my job, whereas horseriding is my hobby.

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.

Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.

The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I wanted to be a horseback-riding trainer and to go to the Olympics as an equestrian.

I grew up riding all my life, so I was very comfy on a horse, thank God. Although I'd never ridden... with sword in my hand.

I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

I was in session through the winter and announced rodeos in the summer… There’s an amazing correlation ... in that there’s bull in each profession.