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

- Bette Ford

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…

- Bette Ford

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…

- Bette Ford

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…

- Bette Ford

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

- Bette Ford

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.

- Bette Ford

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

- Bette Ford

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…

- Bette Ford

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…

- Bette Ford