This is a very competitive Derby.

I'm looking forward to being on the Derby Trail again. I enjoy myself when I'm on it and you have to enjoy yourself because there will be disappointments. If you are one-two-three in last preps, you've got a chance. If you run horrible in those races, unless you've got a tremendous excuse, you've got no excuse.

I'm a competitive person.

This was the most gratifying Haskell I've won. With those other two it was like bringing an Uzi to a picnic.

One of these days I'm going to win that thing, and you're not going to see me again. But I'm not leaving until I win it.

He's been here, he loves the surface, it's soft. We knew we were going to get the lead. I was hoping to get like a :23 and change [the first quarter].