The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
Horse racing is waning in popularity.
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
I think, in BMX, it's a lot like horse racing. I wouldn't really bet on it.
Horse racing is animated roulette.
I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
I like going down the pub with my mates and horse racing. I don't do anything that exciting.
When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence.
There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.
Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.
I don't play golf, and I'm not into horse racing.
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.
I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.
It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.
The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.
'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man.
Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.