Lester Piggott famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.
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After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.
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On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.
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Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.
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Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?
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When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.
-- Lester Piggott
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By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."
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I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
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Google might be doping the horses.
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If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.
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Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.
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