I think it's a testament to the athlete the horse is, and the training his trainer has put into him. I just think he's made him aerobically a more flexible, tougher athlete with the regimen he goes through.

He's a tough horse, he's been training very well here.

It's so hard, especially when you get under so much scrutiny like in the Triple Crown, to be able to stick to the strength of your convictions. … Here's a guy who knows his horse, has confidence in his training and has stuck to his guns.

Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other, exactly like a cybernetic feedback system; yet many psychologists treat their work as something they do to a subject, not with the subject.

I don't think anybody believes that [with] an infected horse or an infected dog, a mosquito that feeds on those animals is going to pick up the virus, there's just too little of it there,

Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.