21 Quotes by Chris McCarron

I think Del Mar has always been an incredibly competitive and aggressively approached meet. I'm not sure why there have been more controversial cases this summer, but I vividly remember it always being an aggressively ridden meet by the riders. There's a lot at stake down here.

With the two-year associate's degree, it's good in case some of these guys find out, once they start riding daily that they don't like it, they'll have other options.

This will eventually be a like lot some of the jockey schools in other countries around the world,

There are a number of riders in the jocks' room here who have what it takes to be leaders, except that they're maybe a little too quiet,

You cannot name another professional sport in which the athletes have not had coaches teaching them for much of their life,

This is truly a historic opportunity for all facets of the horse-racing industry. Never before has there been a program of this kind in the United States. This academy will allow jockeys -- and eventually all those interested in the horse-racing industry -- to develop career pathways that will allow them to reach training and educational goals they never knew were possible.

It's a perfect fit, ... We need a lot of horses, and this will be a big feather in our cap.

It's going to be a full-blown community or technical college course.

It's unfair to the trainers to have a smaller pool of truly skilled and talented riders at their disposal.