Alexander the Great:

What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.

— Alexander the Great Ancient

Macedonian conqueror

Upon seeing Bucephalus being led away as useless and beyond training.

As a youth, before 336 BCE

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