These polo quotes will inspire you. Polo, a game played by teams of players on horseback using mallets with long flexible handles to drive a wooden ball through goalposts or a game of Eastern origin resembling field hockey, played on horseback with a long-handled mallet.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging polo quotes, polo sayings, and polo proverbs.
Best Polo Quotes
- “Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.” ~ Sylvester Stallone
- “Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.” ~ Kate Reardon
- “You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.” ~ Ignacy Jan Paderewskix
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“I’m completely hooked on polo.” ~ Mike Rutherford
- “I was a mod when I was a kid. I’d be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform – a very specific look.” ~ Stephen Moyer
- “Polo is like tennis – you literally have to live it.” ~ Sylvester Stallone
- “Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King’s polo stick.” ~ Rumi
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“There’s nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can’t cure.” ~ Woody Allen
- “I tried water polo and my horse drowned… that was a nightmare.” ~ Lee Evans
- “A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.” ~ Will Rogers
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“My heart beats as much as I can breathe.” ~ Marco Polo
- “After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.” ~ Will Rogers , Polo quotes horse
- “In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity… From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.” ~ Claude Levi-Strauss
- “I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult” ~ Dr. Seuss
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“Sex is the poor man’s polo.” ~ Clifford Odets
- “I speak and speak, […] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. […] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.” ~ Marco Polo
- “If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, – aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, – would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.” ~ Marco Polo
- “We trusted the writers and showrunners [in Westworlds] so much because they’re so brilliant and the writing’s so incredible. It really was like playing Marco Polo, where you just kind of followed their voice and they would lead you to water.” ~ Evan Rachel Wood
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“Water polo would be much more interesting if they hadn’t gotten rid of the horses.” ~ Dov Davidoff
- “My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I’ve learned about clothes is to ask a girl.” ~ Matthew Perry
- “I believe it was God’s will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.” ~ Marco Polo
- “A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.” ~ Devon Monk
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“Who doesn’t have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka.” ~ Scott Disick
- “I’m so proud of the time I put in the pool, so proud of the people I met along way, just to be asked to do this was exciting for me. I love it when I run into people who remember me from playing water polo as opposed to what I do now, which is an actor. It’s rare that anyone remembers me but it’s fun when I run into guys that played water polo who, we can speak in terms of water polo and what it was like and how we played, it’s the great camaraderie. I was so excited to be asked to be part of this because I’m proud of it. I’m more proud of this probably than I am my professional career.” ~ Ted McGinley
- “We’re making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.” ~ Ralph Lauren
- “Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he’s just a fresh face on a Taliban creed – the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.” ~ Maureen Dowd
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“We go into the red next year… I shall have to give up polo.” ~ Prince Philip
- “In America they have to know just what you are– novelist, poet, playwright… Well, I’ve been all of them… I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It’s not like, say, playing polo and knitting.” ~ Robert Penn Warren
- “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
- “It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn” ~ Walt Disney
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“I’m a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.” ~ Gianni Versace
- “It’s important for people to try and be more like Marco Polo in how he explored the world, very few of us nowadays pay attention to cultures and try to understand them.” ~ Zhu Zhu
- “[Polo Is My Life] is what’s called a sex book – you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It’s about the manager of a sex theater who’s forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to “play polo” with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can’t afford to.” ~ Robert Baden-Powell
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.” ~ Andre Gide
- “The year was 1996, Guy Mariano and I had no clothing sponsors, and at that point in our lives we had purchased enough Polo, Hilfiger and Nautica gear to think, hey, maybe we should start a clothing company.” ~ Eric Koston
- “There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo’s journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears’ basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus’ visit came to be known as a “discovery.” ~ Tom Robbins
- “When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.” ~ Rihanna
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“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.” ~ Italo Calvino
- “A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it’s okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they’re out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “My mom didn’t teach me about Marco Polo. She didn’t teach me about Napoleon. She didn’t teach me about any of that. But she did teach me how to survive and to be a good person. And you need to be a strong woman to do that. She’s the biggest person in my life. She’s my Virgin Maria. That’s why I love religion so much.” ~ Riccardo Tisci
- “Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,” Polo said. “Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.” ~ Italo Calvino
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“This one is for the boys in the polos Entrepreneur niggas & the moguls” ~ Nicki Minaj
- “When I was a kid I was very particular. I was actually beyond particular. I would iron my money and spray it with Polo cologne.” ~ Mark McNairy
- “There is still one of which you never speak.’ Marco Polo bowed his head. ‘Venice,’ the Khan said. Marco smiled. ‘What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?’ The emperor did not turn a hair. ‘And yet I have never heard you mention that name.’ And Polo said: ‘Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.” ~ Italo Calvino
- “Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He’d forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.” ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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“I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed” ~ Marco Polo
- “I don’t play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses – a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.” ~ William Devane
- “People don’t ask Andre Agassi, ‘You know you’re the No. 1 tennis player in the world… have you thought about polo?'” ~ Rob Schneider
- “Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
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“I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men’s polo shirt. We weren’t there, like, ready for war.” ~ Kanye West
- “I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.” ~ Ted McGinley
- “The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.” ~ Marco Polo
- “Polo really is a European sport. It’s not really that popular in America. I’m not an expert on the sport, but it’s fun to watch.” ~ David Lauren
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“But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.” ~ Eli Wallach
- “The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It’s not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you’re gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that’s going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.” ~ Chris Albrecht
- “Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don’t want to name.” ~ Randeep Hooda
- “I love Polo. I have a lot of Ralph Lauren suits. I got Dolce, I got a little bit of everything. And my favorite thing about Ralph Lauren is that he puts the number three on a lot of his clothes, so I feel like it’s meant for me.” ~ Chris Paul
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“I have not told the half of what I saw.” ~ Marco Polo
- “I’ve always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.” ~ Daniel Tosh
- “I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I’ve got a brand new look – I’ve moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.” ~ Rafael Nadal
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“Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we’re more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.” ~ Wally Lamb
- “The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.” ~ Novak Djokovic
- “I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I’d come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann’s Pop’Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over ‘All My Children’ and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.” ~ Andy Cohen
