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Horse Racing Quotes

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
- John Steinbeck

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
- Nat King Cole

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers

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.
- Laura Hillenbrand

Horse racing is animated roulette.
- Roger Kahn

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.
- Bode Miller

On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with the very elements; wrapped in the whirling blast of the north wind, the beast embodied the icy breath of winter.
- Yukio Mishima

I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
- Ian Rush

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.
- Dick Schaap

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