Words matter. These are the best Derby Quotes from famous people such as Jurgen Klopp, Bob Baffert, Gerardo Martino, Patrick Bamford, Frank Thomas, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.
Following the Santa Anita Derby, Medina Spirit developed dermatitis on his hind end.
Argentina against Brazil is the most important derby between national teams.
When I go on loan, I don’t really think about Chelsea. I just concentrate on the team I’m at and try to help them, same as when I was at MK Dons, Derby, and Middlesbrough.
A Home Run Derby is fun. It’s just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there’s a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn’t affect the second half of your season at all.
I’ve always paid a lot of attention to the races that go on throughout the offseason, being the Snowball Derby, the Chili Bowl, Rolex 24; races that I admire and really enjoy watching.
It’s not the same when you don’t have people watching and cheering you on. That’s what makes the Derby so great.
Half-brights consider it comedy gold to congratulate anyone they dislike for ‘winning the Kentucky Derby!’ The only thing more bracingly original to not-smart people is: ‘Stay classy!’
Every derby match is different, just like every season is different.
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It’s such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it’s about this great sort of camaraderie.
When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.
A derby is a derby. When you play a derby, it is for winning, not just to play.
Sometimes in a derby it is not always easy to see a very good game with big quality but the power of one derby means you can see good things happen after one result.
I’ve announced every kind of sporting event except hockey and demolition derby, and to be frank about it, I don’t really care to ever do those.
Scoring in the Derby d’Italia is always important and a source of great satisfaction.
Derby day in Buenos Aires is completely crazy and those sort of experiences have shaped me.
I look back and can’t believe it sometimes. I have to go to the Derby Museum to see what I really accomplished.
A derby is always special.
You can’t win the Kentucky Derby unless you’re on a thoroughbred.
That is where I got my childhood memories, watching the Home Run Derby as a kid. Maybe some kids are watching me. I would like to return that.
I really enjoyed my first Istanbul derby.
I’ve won the Derby with the best horse and I’ve lost the Derby with the best horse.
That was always special, playing Manchester United. I loved the feeling of the derby, that pressure, the atmosphere around it. And I did have some good matches there, didn’t I?
In England, every game is like a derby, because it’s physical.
If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
We cannot have Derby County going the same way as Macclesfield and Bury. That would be a stain on English football. It simply cannot be allowed to happen.
Yeah, I did roller derby for three years.
Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver – they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby – and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.
Winning a derby is always a beautiful thing.
You have to break clean. If you miss the break in the Derby, it’s over.
It’s war for 90 minutes in the Manchester Derby. You cannot give anything less than 100 percent concentration.
I already know about the importance of the derby.
It’s war for 90 minutes in the Manchester Derby. You cannot give anything less than 100 percent concentration.
The Derby experience had not been good for me and the way it finished left a very bad taste in my mouth so I questioned whether I wanted to go back into management.
Following the Santa Anita Derby, Medina Spirit developed dermatitis on his hind end.
I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
I remember, when I was at Sunderland, we made the FA Cup final and played in front of 20,000 at Derby.
That was always special, playing Manchester United. I loved the feeling of the derby, that pressure, the atmosphere around it. And I did have some good matches there, didn’t I?
I think we should go back to the old style of the draw at the Derby.
Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.
I played my first derby, I won, and I scored. As good as it gets!
I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Half-brights consider it comedy gold to congratulate anyone they dislike for ‘winning the Kentucky Derby!’ The only thing more bracingly original to not-smart people is: ‘Stay classy!’
I look back and can’t believe it sometimes. I have to go to the Derby Museum to see what I really accomplished.
Playing in the Manchester derby definitely helped me.
In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.
The Merseyside derby is a terrific game full of passion, full of quality.
I was a ‘Laurel and Hardy’ nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he’d want me to play him.
A Home Run Derby is fun. It’s just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there’s a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn’t affect the second half of your season at all.
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.
A hat trick in a derby is a special thing.
A derby is different, it is not to be played, it is to be won!
My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
There were plenty of clubs wanting me but as soon as my agent Lee Robinson told me Derby were interested I had a good feeling.
Tottenham’s number one derby will always be Arsenal.
When I was a kid, watching All-Star week on TV, the Home Run Derby was a highlight for me.
Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.
I was a ‘Laurel and Hardy’ nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he’d want me to play him.
I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
The horse that wins the Derby is usually the best horse.
I’ve won the Derby with the best horse and I’ve lost the Derby with the best horse.
I think we should go back to the old style of the draw at the Derby.
The derby d’Italia is a very difficult match, five out of five on the scale.
There are two things I will always remember. First, a shot against Derby that hit the inside of the post but didn’t go in, and we could only draw 2-2. And then the really big chance against Bayer Leverkusen, two minutes from the end of the Champions League semi-final, when I shot over the bar. That hurt a lot.
Before I knew I was going to the Derby, I had my shrink on call. It’s a special, special moment.
Scoring in the Derby d’Italia is always important and a source of great satisfaction.
There’s a roller derby girl that goes by that name, ‘Nerd Rage,’ and she named herself after my album.
Every derby is special, especially the atmosphere on the stands.
One and done, Home Run Derby champion. It was a cool experience. I enjoyed it all, but I don’t think I really need to go out there and do it again.
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