Tony McCoy Quotes

If you break your sternum or your ribs, you can still move. It's going to hurt, but if you can cope with it, you'll do it.

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

I've ridden 3,651 winners, if that's any good to you. I don't count the falls. I count the winners.

I've always got a sweet tooth. I have chocolate hidden in places that nobody knows about.

I could never have ridden 4,000 winners without loving my job, and If I ever get to the point where I'm not loving it, I'll stop.

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.

The day I go out there and don't want to win is the day I will give up.

Doctors are fantastic, but they err on the side of caution. But you can push yourself. You're not going to die from pain.

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.

I'm very lucky to live my life through a sport that I love. I'm in a very privileged position that my work is my hobby.

I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

I was told that there's near on a million to one chance that I would be able to have children.

You always get a buzz from winning. Winning is ... everything.

I like challenging myself. I'm not a person who likes not to work.

When I'm injured, I eat everything - proper junk. That's the one thing about being injured so much, I get to treat myself.

I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.

No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can ride.

When I was a kid, if someone had asked who I'd meet if it could be anyone in the world, it would've been Liam Brady.

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

I probably don't look healthy, but I have never got to the stage where I thought I was going to pass out.

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 that ambulance.

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

I've appreciated every winner. I love them all.

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.

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.