Bob Baffert

“It's an incredible feeling for an owner or trainer to know they've got a superior race horse on their hands. You can tell when you have a really good one.”

“I want to win everything in sight.”

“We need our own people in this business to stop knocking each other. All they do is knock, when we should be trying to sell.”

“I know I'm the most scrutinized trainer and have millions of eyes on me. But you know what? I don't have a problem with that.”

“When I lost my parents, that's when I changed.”

“You know, there's problems in racing, but it's not Bob Baffert.”

“I got the biggest gut-punch in racing, for something I didn't do.”

“I love Usain Bolt. When he's in there, I can't wait to watch him. Because you know he's going to put on a show.”

“Most trainers here, they ride whoever's hot. If they get cold, boom, they get rid of him. But for some reason, I stick with a jockey the longest and when you do have the separation it's a story.”

“We really don't know which ones are better until we race each other. I've got good horses, but other guys have good horses, too.”

“Horses have been my life and I owe everything to them and the tremendous sport in which I have been so fortunate to be involved.”

“I really don't like thoroughbreds, but I was getting bored with quarter horses.”

“You have to break clean. If you miss the break in the Derby, it's over.”

“I always wanted to train and when I got in the business, I never thought about the money I might earn.”

“The Triple Crown was a tough beat, but by the time you get to the last leg of the Triple Crown, you just want it to be over.”

“Justify, you can walk up to him and he might give you three, four, five seconds and then he's done with you. He'll try to bite your head off. It's not in a mean way. He's just a big, tough horse. He'll run you out of the stall.”

“I'm not a conspiracy theorist.”

“I look back and can't believe it sometimes. I have to go to the Derby Museum to see what I really accomplished.”

“My philosophy about life is that we may not be in it for a long time, but we're in it for a good time.”

“Medina Spirit earned his Kentucky Derby win and my pharmacologists have told me that 21 picograms of betamethasone would have had no effect on the outcome of the race.”