Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 really thought Tiz the Law was unbeatable.

To me, Muhammad Ali, he was the greatest.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I don't take vacations.

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.

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.

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

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

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.