"There is no place for arrogance or complacency……" — Tony McCoy
"There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next."
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23 Quotes by Tony McCoy
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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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,…
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
— Eric Bana
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
— Joe Biden
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness…
— Alain de Botton
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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