The speaker characterizes campaigns against the Moors or Turks as high-risk, low-return ventures, compared with the apparently lower risks and much higher potential rewards of expeditions across the Atlantic.

“and yeah i could keep fighting in the campaigns against the moors or against the turks but those are high risk low return ventures yeah i'll be fighting in my home waters but what will the potential rewards be these turks can fight right the message i'm getting from the far side of the atlantic is the the risks there are much lower and the potential rewards much higher it means traveling across a vast ocean it means”