Quotes on Jockeys

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.

I get butterflies before going out to ride every day, but they disappear as soon as I am on a horse, and I think that is the same for most jockeys. Then it is just down to you and the horse, and there is a certain freedom in that.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.