Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Baffert

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Bob Baffert.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Robert A. Baffert is an American racehorse trainer who trained the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify. Baffert's horses have won a record six Kentucky Derbies, seven Preakness Stakes, three Belmont Stakes, and three Kentucky Oaks.

American - Celebrity | Born: January 13, 1953

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

Bob Baffert

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.

Bob Baffert

These horses don't live in a bubble. They're in an open farm. People are touching them.

Bob Baffert

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.

Bob Baffert

Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our equine and human athletes, and nothing impacts their health and safety more than the policies and procedures concerning drugs.

Bob Baffert

You've got to move forward. You can't feel sorry for yourself.

Bob Baffert

Breeders' Cup is your last chance to make serious money, and it's for championships, which impacts how much these horses earn to breed. Ton of money on the line.

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I never thought I'd have to be fighting for my reputation and the poor horse's reputation.

Bob Baffert

All of a sudden, I started winning races. I was the king of Arizona.

Bob Baffert

I never learned from a real trainer so it was trial and error. Mostly error.

Bob Baffert

You don't ease off until your horses are saddled and on the track. Until then, I'm like a snapping turtle. I snap at almost everybody with impatience.

Bob Baffert

I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

Bob Baffert

There is a lot of pressure and you're trying to find the right jockey. These guys ride all year long and they can't stay up all the time. They stay up, then they go down. But me, I ride it out.

Bob Baffert

I can gauge how a horse is feeling.

Bob Baffert

You want them to have fun. If I don't like the way a horse looks, if he has his ears pinned back, I'll send him to the farm, let him go be a horse for a while.

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We live and work in a fishbowl, with rumors and accusations flowing constantly.

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American Pharoah handles people. He's been surrounded by hundreds of people. And when he runs, he always looks like he's having fun.

Bob Baffert

Nobody's got a sense of humor anymore.

Bob Baffert

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.

Bob Baffert

I think we should go back to the old style of the draw at the Derby.

Bob Baffert

It's all about winning. I'm like a coach in the NFL. You better win.

Bob Baffert

Racing has its ups and downs, but the ups make up for the downs.

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Because of the new regulations the regulators have put, they're testing these horses at contaminated levels and it's been a horrible experience.

Bob Baffert

There's so much jealousy in our business. They don't like anything new or different. They don't like change.

Bob Baffert

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

Bob Baffert

It's horse racing. If you can't beat him one way, try to win another way.

Bob Baffert

You can't use your hot pitcher three nights in a row. You've got to let your stars freshen up and back off them.

Bob Baffert

The exciting part about the Breeders' Cup is to be in the position where you have a chance to win.

Bob Baffert

I like Habibti in the Juvenile Fillies.

Bob Baffert

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

Bob Baffert

The testing levels have become ridiculous. All they show is contamination, and they have really put the trainers' heads on the chopping blocks. It hurts racing.

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Medina Spirit is a deserved champion and I will continue to fight for him.

Bob Baffert

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.

Bob Baffert

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.

Bob Baffert

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

Bob Baffert

Before I knew I was going to the Derby, I had my shrink on call. It's a special, special moment.

Bob Baffert

The quarter horse game is more laid back. I think those guys are more friendly.

Bob Baffert

The emphasis in thoroughbreds is managing the horses as much as it is training them.

Bob Baffert

I always worry about the horses I haven't beaten yet.

Bob Baffert

I'm a pretty softie kind of guy.

Bob Baffert

When a horse is feeling good, you can sense that, a lot like the tension a fisherman feels on his line when he hooks something.

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It's something that gets in your blood. Out in California, Darrell Vienna left his trainer's job to practice law, and now he's back training again, so that's how this game can get a hold on you.

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When I got a call to see if I wanted a Derby horse, I said, 'Damn!'

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To me, it gets harder because it's expected of you. We expect Bill Belichick to win the Super Bowl every year - and expect Bob Baffert to win. It's difficult.

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My parents were always with me when I went through all the Triple Crowns.

Bob Baffert

One thing about racing, a lot of times you'll get upset with someone, yet we live in confinement here. It's almost like we live in a prison and you have to try and get along. Forgive and forget.

Bob Baffert

The last thing I want to do is do something that would jeopardize the greatest two minutes in sports.

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I like music, but I wasn't really good at music.

Bob Baffert

Art Collector, I think he's a very good horse.

Bob Baffert

Well Belmont is the kind of track where we've had a lot of success, as have a lot of people in California, where you can ship in there, in a few days run the horses, the horses will run great and there's few tracks where you can do that.

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I've won the Derby with the best horse and I've lost the Derby with the best horse.

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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.

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Bob Baffert is not stupid.

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I'm worried about our sport. Our sport, we've taken a lot of hits as a sport.

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I think about the losses more, the ones that got away from me.

Bob Baffert

I want to have a positive influence on the sport of horse racing.

Bob Baffert

I want to protect my legacy. I've trained great horses.

Bob Baffert

In my barn, everyone gets a fair and equal shot.