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

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

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.

Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

There are Marxists and there are people that are socialists. But the label of Marxist takes on a whole new meaning. Even socialist for a while took on a whole new meaning.

It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.