I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He’s the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
Polo has always had an old-fashioned, aristocratic English feel.
I’ve always had jewelry over the years, but when it comes to clothes, I’m just a white or black Polo tee guy with some jeans and a pair of Jordans, and I’m cool. As long as I’m comfortable, I’m cool.
Polo is a quintessentially English sport. It stands for quality and sophistication and is recognised all over the world as such.
On one level, there’s an aspirational quality to having a Polo player. On another level, it’s just a great shirt with lots of colors.
I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can’t really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.
In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It’s your legs that do all the work. In polo, it’s the horses’ legs.
The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.
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