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Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train! -- Sid Waddell
Also, of course, I need my Dove soap. Of course I need my cocoa butter. I need my Listerine. I need the white Jockey tees. They are really soft and comfortable. -- DJ Khaled
I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey. -- Chantal Sutherland
I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey. -- Tony McCoy
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey. -- Calvin Trillin
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. -- Henny Youngman
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer. -- Leon Uris
It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life. -- Bill Cosby
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
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 used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey. -- B. B. King
At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it. -- Tim Conway
Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey. -- Solomon Northup
The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing. -- Tom T. Hall
A helmet is the most important part of any jockey's kit because of the number of falls you take, so I wouldn't want to be wearing anything on the track unless it had been thoroughly tested. -- Tony McCoy
There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience. -- Tony McCoy
Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders. -- Brad Stone
I'm not a television anchor for a Hindi channel or a radio jockey. So I may not be able to have a spontaneous conversation in Hindi. I'm a Bollywood actress, and I can certainly speak my dialogue in Hindi. -- Katrina Kaif
Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey - flat or jumps - there's ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement. -- Tony McCoy
I've lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows, aspiring to finally become a professional jockey and racing in stakes races on a worldwide stage. -- Chantal Sutherland
I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues. -- Koko Taylor
When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal. -- Tony McCoy
I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.' -- David Cassidy
A good jockey has to be physically well balanced. They have to possess a strong upper body and a strong lower body. You've gotta have quick reflexes, and you've got to be incredibly coordinated. But it's you're instincts that have to be perfect. You can't be an exceptional rider without instincts. -- Chantal Sutherland
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal. -- Olivia Thirlby
For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story. -- Ridley Scott
I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.' -- Jesse Stone
I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl. -- Cindy Morgan
I wanted to be a jockey. -- Davy Jones
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. -- Jean Giraudoux
When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man -- Eddie Arcaro
You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey. -- Arrigo Sacchi
I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first. -- Arrigo Sacchi
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey. -- Edgar Degas
A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it. -- Dick Francis
I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check. -- Shelley Winters
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage. -- Edouard Herriot
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
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
My horse's jockey was hitting the horse. The horse turns around and says "Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!" -- Henny Youngman
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
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
Offering multiple games to reach such a broad audience is a great way to create awareness about horse racing. Obviously, my favorite is the jockey game. It's very realistic. -- Chantal Sutherland
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
Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it. -- Davy Jones
I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw. -- Jesse Eisenberg
DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves. -- Larry Lujack
I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah. -- Michael Chiklis
I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it. -- William Shatner
I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey. -- Noel Whitcomb
I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family. -- Janet Jackson

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