He was the picture of perfection. We just knew he'd make a perfect trainer for some of our horses.

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

We're having a good time, and we don't see why it should stop.

He's a gentleman. He doesn't waste time with the negative.

He'd stay up all night in the barn and stagger back up, and I'd go down and [right away] foal the thing. That happened a couple of times. Or Penn would be playing basketball, or Villanova. He'd go to the game and she would foal.

You've been climbing the ladder for 30 years, trying to get a great racehorse.