"I get butterflies before going out to ride……" — Tony McCoy
"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 is the same for most jockeys. Then it is just down to you and the horse, and there is a certain freedom in that."
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23 Quotes by Tony McCoy
Tony McCoy has 23 quotes on this site.
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When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has…
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You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.
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When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.
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You always get a buzz from winning. Winning is... everything.
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My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and…
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I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey.
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No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can…
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If I go racing tomorrow and I have five rides that all get beaten, all I want to do is…
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Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared…
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It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to…
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I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having…
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There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in…
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone…
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Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
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I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning.…
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It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.
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Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in…
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.
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Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little…
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God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you,…
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We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if…
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I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
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