Quotes About Riding

I feel like I have this different opportunity that not a lot of athletes may have. It's the fact that I'm Korean-American, and the Olympics are going to be in Korea, but I'm also riding for the States. I feel like I got really lucky that it got all pieced together - my first Olympics, being in Korea where most of my family is.

I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.

I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.

She is aristocratic when she rides, jumping boldly over ditches and hedges, but who admires her? Certainly not her husband. He'd just despise her if she were cowardly. On the contrary: he reminds her to think of her children.    So she feels like an actor who is expected to act without an audience and ends up gnashing her teeth in rage and crying into her pillow during her sleepless nights.

Everyone talks about Utah riding, slickrock and all that. I go through the mountain-bike magazines at the shop, and I think, 'That'd be awesome.'

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.

When I'm snowboarding, I just feel stronger and more flexible and more able to trust my instincts - because there are times when you really do have to be mindful with the jumps you're hitting and the conditions that you're riding in.

No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.

If you do that, she can ride on my back," Tsunami suggested. She missed having the little SandWing come lean against her trustingly.

The odious little dogs that French people seemed to like so much rushed out at him as he rode by, barking furiously.

Not an hour is lost that is spent in the saddle.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

A season with the herd and you'll be riding like an arat," Noyon said, referring to the local horsemen. "A season in that saddle and I'd be ready for traction," Giordino grumbled.

Have you ridden before?' he asks me, and I return him the look he deserves. ... 'No? And yet you would look so well with your hair whipping behind you.' Oak says. 'Wild as the Folk of old.

The trip home always seemed to take half the time, because Murphy and Little Paint were eager for their dinner. We clung like burrs on their backs and rode like the wind. We were eager for our dinner too.

sculpted and refined by hours upon hours of exercise, walking stairs that lead nowhere, riding bikes that go nowhere, rowing phantom rowboats, wearing immovable cross-country skis.

What do ladies wear beneath their riding trousers?" "I would think an infamous rake would already know." "I was never infamous. In fact, I'm fairly standard as far as rakes go." "The ones who deny it are the worst.

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

I've been riding motorcycles since my early 20s, and I loved the hipness of the subculture.

keep me from ridin' trail. But you're acting

The experience of riding an electric bike is very different. Because there was no engine noise and no big vibration coming from the bike, it wasn't as stressful.

How do you expect to ride when you're not steady on your feet?" "The same way I always ride--badly. Your concern for my welfare is misplaced." "My concern is not for your welfare. It's for the horse you intended to ride, and the tenants you're supposed to visit. They have enough hardship to contend with--they don't need to be subjected to the company of a drunken fool.

That was well done of you," Kathleen told West as they rode along the unpaved farm road. She was impressed by the way he had handled himself and addressed Strickland's concerns. "It was clever of you to put him at ease by trying your hand at field work." "I wasn't trying to be clever." West seemed preoccupied. "I wanted to gain information." "And so you did.