Top 60 Rider Quotes

My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

Henry Fonda’s son: That’s how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

I’m the worst rider. I’m a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

I did shows for a while without a rider, actually, because nobody tells you that it comes out of your fee.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We’ll see.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn’t have had this passion to be a rider.

I’m on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith – she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power.

In 1969, when I was still living in London, I had gone with some friends to see ‘Easy Rider’ in a movie theater in Piccadilly Circus and had returned alone some days later to see it again. It was Jack’s combination of ease and exuberance that had captured me from the moment he had come on-screen.

Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.

To me, when I was a kid, we watched terrible network TV because it was all we had. We watched ‘The A-Team’ and ‘Knight Rider.’

The horse’s neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider’s hand.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

I think ‘Easy Rider’ might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral score. No one had really used found music in a movie before, except to play on radios or when someone was singing in a scene.

I remember my first taste of American big movies was ‘Ghost Rider.’ I’m in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

I don’t like comparisons with Merckx or any other rider because we’re talking about different eras, so it doesn’t make any sense.

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who’s out there just for the experience.

The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion – he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It’s hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

I’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I think I’m the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I’ve seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I’ve seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

When we train a horse to do a certain job, we’re training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider’s instruction to do what needs to be done.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

The new generation doesn’t know anything about me except for what they saw in’ Easy Rider.’

You watch ‘Whale Rider,’ and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

When I made ‘Whale Rider’ – of course, I’m not Maori and have no business, as a white girl, telling people how to be in this movie – I started by learning the language, as best I could.

When you’re the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.

‘Easy Rider’ was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

With every film I’ve made, ‘Whale Rider’ included, I’ve had a vision that was far bigger than the budget allowed.

I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was ‘Easy Rider’ and ‘Taxi Driver.’ Everything was gritty.

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe ‘The A-Team’ and ‘Airwolf’… And I loved ‘Knight Rider’ and then later ‘Baywatch.’

When I won my first Tour, the second-placed rider was some 18 minutes behind.

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for suffering, which I thought was important, but also determination.

For any young rider even competing in the San Remo is one of the biggest things – but to win it is beyond emotion. You can’t put it into words.

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider – very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast.

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

I read all of Rider Haggard’s books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I’m delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that’s exactly what I am.

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

Time trialing is one of those things that you’ve got to train for… Being a new rider, it’s still really hard for me to know what’s the most efficient gear for me to be in. The road race is probably more exciting, in my opinion, because it’s a lot faster pace, and people are constantly attacking.

I get criticized for taking roles in films like ‘Ghost Rider 2’, but if you look at my resume, dude, I’ve mixed it up as much as I can.

‘Whale Rider’ was quite an extraordinary shoot. We were in that community on the east coast and so much of what you see in that film was very present.

When I play supernatural characters in ‘Ghost Rider’ or ‘City Of Angels,’ the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

It was one of the things that used to be on my rider when I would do my shows. I would always ask for a Klondike bar.

I love dill pickles! They’re on my rider for my concerts so I eat one every day.

The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.

People don’t connect the girl that sang ‘Mickey’ with the girl who was one of the seven original Lockers or the same girl who was in ‘Easy Rider’ or the same girl who choreographed David Bowie, Tina Turner, and Bette Midler tours. It’s like I’ve led five lives.

Whale Rider’ was a very authentic and specific movie about the indigenous culture from where I come. Amazingly, by the fact it was so authentic and so specific, it became really powerfully universal.

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider’s whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

I’m about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

I think that ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider’s face on it as a tree.

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.