Who’s going to win the Belmont? Today I want to look at horse quotes and wagering quotes for inspiration. I will try to find some spiritual linkage and some humor too. The cartoon image I found on a site attributed to Willard Mullin. Good luck!!!
“Round hoofed, short jointed, fetlocks shag and long,
broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostrils wide,
high crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong,
thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide:
look, what a horse should have and he did not lack,
save a proud rider on his back.”
~~William Shakespeare
“I once bet on a horse so slow, I bet it to live.”
~~Henny Youngman
“During any given second, we consciously process only sixteen of the eleven million bits of information our senses pass on to our brains.
In other words, the conscious part of us receives much less information than the unconscious part of us.
We should trust our hunches and pursue our intuitions because they are closer to reality than the perceived reality of consciousness.”
~~Possibly attributable to Tor Norretranders
“Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.”
~~Freeman Teague Jr.
“A knife keeps its edge only with honing and proper cutting.
A warrior’s virtue is readiness.
A sage’s virtue is awareness.”
~~Deng Dao
“[Sunday Silence, winner of the 1989 Kentucky Derby] seemed to be some kind of prehistoric throwback,
a living legend of the days when horses were hunted, when fear and hunger ruled their lives.
In a classy stable of calm, earnest animals, Sunday Silence was Al Capone singing in the Vienna Boys Choir.”
~~Jay Hovdey
“Everyone realizes that a bad rider can make a thoroughbred look like a cart horse,
but unless a horse is fleet of foot the Perfect Horseman and the Perfect Jockey rolled into one cannot win races on him. The jockey is there to guide, help, drive, cajole, or even hoax his horse into the winner’s enclosure,
but he cannot go faster than the horse.”
~~Dick Francis
“May all your chosen horses be long of nose when the photo finish sign flashes.”
~~ME
READ MORE ABOUT HOW TO SUCCEED IN HORSE WAGERING IN MY BOOK “ZEN AND THE SUCCESSFUL HORSEPLAYER; HOW TO WIN AND FIND CALMNESS IN HORSE WAGERING”
