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Tony McCoy Quotes

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I’ve appreciated every winner. I love them all.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) 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 lives together. To give you an example, having spent two decades sitting next to Richard Johnson and seeing him virtually every day, I have probably spent more time with him than I have my family, and he the same.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) I probably don’t look healthy, but I have never got to the stage where I thought I was going to pass out.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn’t say I don’t respect other people’s opinions, but my opinion is the most important.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) I’ve always got a sweet tooth. I have chocolate hidden in places that nobody knows about.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey - flat or jumps - there’s ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) Many of us in the jockeys’ room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) 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 Roche.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) The National is about however long it takes to run that race - eight minutes of fame - but champion jockey is about racing 365 days a year. I actually wouldn’t swap any of my winners for the National.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) It’s not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don’t want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) You don’t have to be Einstein to see that horse racing is dangerous. Those two ambulances driving behind you aren’t there for the scenery. I will never get over the fatalities of colleagues. It is the saddest and toughest part of this sport.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) If you’ve got a regular feed of winners, you control your mind to do it. It becomes a must. If you didn’t have that regular flow of winning, whether you could get yourself to do that, I don’t know. It’s a lot easier when you know the next day you can win and you can win and win, it’s worth doing it.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) Essentially, I am a dreamer. I’ve dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I’d be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) A lot of healing is in the mind. I’m not talking about serious illnesses like cancer. I’m talking about ordinary broken bones. Healing begins in the head. You have to convince yourself you can do it.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) 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 high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn’t mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) When I’m injured, I eat everything - proper junk. That’s the one thing about being injured so much, I get to treat myself.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) 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 just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) I suppose I’m happy when I know I’ve given a horse a good ride, no matter where it is. I like playing golf in the summer; I’m happy when I hit a good shot, and I enjoy watching Arsenal playing beautiful football, but overall I can’t believe you can be happy when you’re not winning. I honestly can’t accept that.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) Most days, I have a slice of toast, then lie in a hot bath for an hour to get up a sweat. I have a sauna at the racecourse and then go and ride. On the way home, I might stop at a service station and have a bar of chocolate and a Diet Coke. And that’s it, basically.  (Tony McCoy Quotes) I am quite hard to live with, and I know that if I go through a bad run, I’m not the best company and am best left alone. But I’m not nearly as bad as people like to make out.  (Tony McCoy Quotes)