Tony McCoy Quotes

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• When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness…
• You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.
• When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.
• You always get a buzz from winning. Winning is... everything.
• My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy…
• I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey.
• No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can ride.
• If I go racing tomorrow and I have five rides that all get beaten, all I want to do is get out there the next…
• Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other…
• It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to starve themselves and spend hours…
• I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having good people around me all…
• There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna…
• I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.
• I have seen countless colleagues struggle to come to terms with retirement. I learned a lot from Richard Dunwoody when he was riding, and I…
• I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to…
• I get butterflies before going out to ride every day, but they disappear as soon as I am on a horse, and I think that…
• If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it…
• By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent most of our…
• There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.
• During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of…

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