Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form..

You kill, it's part of your world as a bullfighter, it's a natural part of your world, and then you leave that world and it becomes unnatural..

Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I w….

In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that g….

In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull..

I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to i….

I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my tec….

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values..

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though..

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure..

For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger tha….

A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook..

My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be a tendency to vie….

I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia..

Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're ….

Acting requires focus, too, but acting doesn't, you might say, demand focus. When you're in the ring you don't even have to think about focus because….

If you fear something, walk into it..

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics..

One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the mo….