Quotes About Equestrian

I know I am a good rider, but sometimes I don't see myself as a big rider.

I don't ever remember not riding.

I've been riding Valegro since he was four or five years old.

I've been riding since I was maybe three or four. Ponies at first, and then I've really always been doing it since.

I've had so many letters from people saying I've inspired them to take up riding, and that's an amazing feeling.

I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.

Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.

I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

Sickening, the way the youngest de Vibrey girl, to humour the whim of her kinky old father, is actually riding side-saddle today. Twisted round like a blooming corkscrew. Hymen be blowed, think of what it's doing to her innards, poor wretch, think of the strain on her spine when she goes over the fences.

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Ever since I knew Dad did pentathlon, I wanted to do it as well. I have seen all his old photos, and he still has his Olympic riding jacket, and that makes this even more special.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

My excursions into "horse politics" and "the alphabets" were to pay my debt to society by serving in the political trenches of the equestrian world, but horse politics never defined me. It took horses to do that.

However, eventing was still a small, disorganized group of people who wanted to gallop at speed over solid obstacles and then party like hell that night.

On the second day of a Classic at Olympic and World Championship level, the "speed and endurance" test length totaled 22 miles, which included a 2-mile steeplechase, and a 5-mile cross-country phase.

It was worth many hardships to see forty German professors try to mount forty recalcitrant mules. My own horseman¬ ship, as already hinted, is nothing to " write home about ", but compared to those German professors I am a centaur.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.