"As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me."

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Source : "Catching up with {hellip} Matt Gonzalez". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2009.

Matt Gonzalez

#Winning Quotes #Boys Quotes #Kentucky Quotes

“Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.”
“What does it mean to regret when you have no choice?”
“Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.”
“I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.”
“A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.”
“The simple-minded always look for something - if it's not pornography, it's DVDs or the Internet or video games - but I don't think there's anything inherently evil about Facebook.”
“Celtic supporters want to be proud of their Club. That's all they want. It is what they deserve.”
“I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.”

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