Sarah B

“Everyone who works around a racetrack knows the starting gate is the most dangerous place to work," said Tim Snyder. "You've got a thousand-pound horse, a hundred pound jockey and you're putting them both in a steel cage. Out on the track you can get thrown, but the ground is forgiving and in the event you get trampled, you'll probably be okay. In the gate you can get absolutely crushed".”
― Joe Layden, The Ghost Horse: A True Story of Love, Death, and Redemption

“We've made our mistakes, he admitted, "but we're young. The first time you make a mistake, you're wrong. The second time you're stupid.”
― Dan Mearns, Seattle Slew: Racing's Only Undefeated Triple Crown Winner

“Heroes doubt themselves at first, just like you, but they go ahead anyway.”
― Jeffrey Marsh, How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

“Same here, but my limit is fifty pages. I've never understood people who grind through a book they don't really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason. Tessa was like that. She would toss a book after the first chapter, then pick it up and grumble and growl for four hundred pages until the bitter end. Never understood that.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island