Quotes by Tony McCoy

About Tony McCoy:

Anthony Peter McCoy is an Northern Irish former horse racing jockey, based in the UK and Ireland. He was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010, becoming the first jockey to win the award. In December 2013, he was named RTÉ Sports Person of the Year.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

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 perform their best whenever they are at work.

Tony McCoy

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...

Tony McCoy

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

Tony McCoy

A helmet is the most important part of any jockey's kit because of the number of falls you take, so I wouldn't want to be wearing anything on the track unless it had been thoroughly tested.

Tony McCoy

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

Tony McCoy

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

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

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.

Tony McCoy

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.

Tony McCoy

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

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

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

Tony McCoy

For eight or 10 years, I got wrapped up in chasing records. Everything was a number. Didn't matter what I won, it was a number. Every horse I rode was a number.

Tony McCoy

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.

Tony McCoy

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

Tony McCoy

If summer racing didn't exist, I could go on holiday, yes, because nobody else would then be riding winners; but as long it goes ahead, I'll do it for the reason that I want to ride more winners than anyone else.

Tony McCoy

It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.

Tony McCoy

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 in the sauna to lose a few pounds to be able to make a big-race ride.

Tony McCoy

Really racing is about the horses, not me. You can't do it without the horses, and they are the big players as are the lads who look after them, and they rarely get a mention.

Tony McCoy

Author Bio

  • NameTony McCoy
  • Descriptionjockey from Northern Ireland
  • BornMay 4, 1974
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire