You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.

There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.

Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.

You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.

When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man

It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.