Jockey Quotes

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band. — Lawrence Welk

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

I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey. — Chantal Sutherland

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage. — Edouard Herriot

Mr. Tarmack,if you try to put a jockey on this horse, I'll have you up on charges.In fact,I'm damn well having you up on charges regardless. — Nora Roberts

Who is this pompous hobgoblin? His jaw had grown square, his belly had gone soft. He was parading like a dictator in jockey shorts and argyle socks. — Genie Frisbee

Sweating like a fat woman in a sauna, nun with a tattoo on her tit, overweight jockey. — Dennis Vickers

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche. — Tony McCoy

I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey. — Tony McCoy

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. — Lester Piggott

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life. — Bill Cosby

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

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all. — B.B. King

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

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

Having a limp is okay, probably cool, if you are a desk jockey working from home, but poor publicity if you are a physical therapist. — Adele Levine

The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling bacon and dedicated it to the doomed man. — Stephen G. Michaud

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. — Henny Youngman

Difficult trainers were the ones most willing to take a chance with a green jockey, and Bill Chandler was a prince compared to Otto Laing. — Bev Pettersen

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. — Fran Lebowitz

I wanted to be a jockey. — Davy Jones

All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey. — Don Cornelius

No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song. — Ben Fong-Torres

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. — Jean Giraudoux

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey. — Calvin Trillin

No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play. — John Kessel

You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey. — Arrigo Sacchi

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

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer. — Leon Uris

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