It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.

I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.

It was huge for the mainstream part of our sport, getting a following. We didn't even know what we'd done. We all just thought, 'Wow, we did so good.' So it was, like, people telling us we had made history and us being pretty clueless.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in no sport.

I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.