“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”

“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”

“That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.”

“My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.”

“Customer is king. I am his treasurer.”

“We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.”

“Thinking is mind over matter.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”