Polo Quotes

“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball.”
― Rory Stewart

“Polo has all the qualities that a nearly middle-aged man would need. Lots of adrenalin, dangerous and, contrary to my expectations, bright and filled with shenanigans and friendships.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The polo ball was thrown in, the game exploded, and so did my sanity.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Polo: drama at its best!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Terry Hanlon was no ordinary man. He was an extravagantly wild and irrepressible sportsman. Terry was a poet, philosopher and artist. He had anarchy in his soul. He disregarded the rules, and we were all jealous of his freedom and ability to make us laugh and sometimes cry.”
― Gordon Roddick

“No one was safe from Terry Hanlon's wit and humour. He was much loved by polo players all over the world.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Friends who had anarchy in their souls were reckless only by calculation and separated from convention by their own desire.”
― Gordon Roddick

“My general advice, if you are thinking of playing polo, is: don’t play polo!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Terry Hanlon was fond of saying polo is like a drug. Once you have learned to hit that ball, you can’t give it up. If you get hooked, buy the best horses you can afford and look after them.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Never play polo with anyone you don’t like, and never be bamboozled into thinking you can play as well as the Argentines.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Unbeatable. The beat goes on.”
― Gordon Roddick