Bob Baffert

When you're getting a lot of press, a lot of ink, you start believing your own crap. You start reading what you…

— 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,…

— Bob Baffert

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

— 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…

— Bob Baffert

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

— Bob Baffert

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

— Bob Baffert

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

— Bob Baffert

I'm a pretty softie kind of guy.

— Bob Baffert

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

— Bob Baffert

The Triple Crown was a tough beat, but by the time you get to the last leg of the Triple Crown, you…

— Bob Baffert

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

— Bob Baffert

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…

— Bob Baffert

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

— Bob Baffert

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

— 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…

— Bob Baffert

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

— Bob Baffert

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

— Bob Baffert

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…

— Bob Baffert

I can gauge how a horse is feeling.

— Bob Baffert

I didn't know what I wanted to do. I was training about six horses. I was feeling the pressure from the folks.…

— Bob Baffert

I get to work with horses, be around them, you know. When you love horses as much as I do, you want…

— Bob Baffert

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…

— Bob Baffert

I really thought Tiz the Law was unbeatable.

— Bob Baffert

Justify, you can walk up to him and he might give you three, four, five seconds and then he's done with you.…

— Bob Baffert