74 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.