Tony McCoy Quotes

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

California is a tragic country … like every Promised Land.

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

Sometimes when you win, you think you're going to get everything to go your way.

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!"

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?