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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
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey. -- Calvin Trillin
Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train! -- Sid Waddell
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. -- Bill Vaughan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll. -- Art Garfunkel
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
All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds. -- Paul Merton
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. -- Henny Youngman
Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run. -- Ralph Richardson
Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free. -- Buddy Guy
Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad. -- Chantal Sutherland
You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys. -- Tucker Max
What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave. -- Dick Beddoes
The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation. -- Tom Udall
I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys. -- Chantal Sutherland

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