If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

...knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

We disqualify ourselves from communicating with God when we refuse to open our hearts to people

Let the blossoms of love beautify your heart.Let the spirit dance with joy.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

Its about letting go so you can get what what you want.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.