Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Baffert - Page 2

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.

The easy part is training a horse; the hard part is finding a good one.

I do most of my racing here in California now. There's no reason to go anywhere else except for a few of the big races.

Wayne Lukas was the bar. Wayne impacted Quarter Horse racing and thoroughbred racing like no other.

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

I just had too much fun in college. I did well enough to get by, but not enough to get into grad school.

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.

I don't take vacations.

I wanted to be a horse trainer against my mother's will.

I just love being around horses. Once it gets in your blood, the passion, you can't get out.

I might get to the barn later, but I stay longer, and that's what counts.

This is not about you or me; it's about a horse making history. It's sacred. Most people don't remember the trainer or jockey or owner of Secretariat or Affirmed. I have to look most of them up. This is about the horse.

I've been blessed and lucky or whatever you want to call it.

I really thought Tiz the Law was unbeatable.

When you're getting a lot of press, a lot of ink, you start believing your own crap. You start reading what you say and think you look smart. Sometimes you need to be knocked down a notch.

I didn't just show up as a walk-on back in 1989. I've done this my whole life, and I'd tell any young trainer to start in quarter horses because you have to do everything. I broke them, rode them, wrapped them and slept with them since I was a boy.

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

When you buy a horse, it's like getting married.

Great trainers and great jockeys keep a horse from getting beat.

I go through airports and people see the white hair and they said, 'Hey, the horse guy! Aren't you the horse guy?' Or I get, 'Has anybody told you that you look just like Bob Baffert?' I say, 'He must be a good-looking guy.'

I don't like being third.

American Pharoah loved human contact. He was a very sweet horse and is still very sweet. He loves people, will put his head in your lap. I'm probably closer to that horse because of his temperament.

I know there are people who say I'm lucky because it looks like I'm not doing anything. But it can't be luck this often.

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 like to be left alone.

To me, Muhammad Ali, he was the greatest.

The Apollo curse is something I don't even think about.

I always said that if I moved to California I'd live by the ocean.

It's one of those things that makes the Derby a great event, is when 150,000 people show up.

Black cats. They kill me every time. I can just feel it when I see one. The only thing that gets me is black cats.

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.

It's not the same when you don't have people watching and cheering you on. That's what makes the Derby so great.

It was the most incredible feeling you can have winning the Kentucky Derby. You're not really mentally prepared for it. It's the greatest race in America, with 150,000 people, Churchill Downs, the Twin Spires, it's just magical.

I think there are a lot of great trainers out there, but they don't get the chances.

The horse that wins the Derby is usually the best horse.

I want to win everything in sight.

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

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.

I get to work with horses, be around them, you know. When you love horses as much as I do, you want to be around them. I mean, you can't beat it.

I didn't know what I wanted to do. I was training about six horses. I was feeling the pressure from the folks. You know, 'When are you going to get a real job?' I never considered training a profession. It was a hobby.