Quotes from Bob Baffert

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I want to win everything in sight.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I can get mad and snap at people. If a horse loses, I'm moody.

I like Habibti in the Juvenile Fillies.