Tony McCoy Quotes

It's literally I'll be injured or hurt in some facet and I'll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.

There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.

I had the broken collarbone twice, but collarbones heal.

I like to think of myself as somebody who heals fast and can play through pain, but I'm not going to rush it at the same time. A sprained ankle, those are things I can fight through.

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.

Dealing with injuries each year, it's kind of like a given that it'll happen. You've just got to push through it.

Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.

Anytime you have an injury, you're going to be iffy about stuff.

It would be nice to wake up and be able to walk to the bathroom. But even when I was 20 and at the Paris Opera, I had to crawl down the stairs; it is only when I start to work and stretch that my body begins to recover again.

When I was 25, it was painful. I was getting out of bed in the morning and couldn't walk. But when you are young, you don't care; it will pass. But one year after another, it's like, 'Come on, give me a break!'

Sleeping hurt, everything hurt. But it's pretty cool what you can do to the body by working out.

It's hard to come back and play when you've gone through surgery.

When you break a collarbone or do something like that, that's out of your control.

I don't even remember how many times I've sprained my ankle. I've had stress fractures galore and torn my PCL. You just take a little time off if you have the time, and if not, you keep training until you can take the time off.

Any time you're recovering from an injury, your main focus is trying to get back into shape, really just getting healthy again.

I've broken my ankle in two spots. Fortunately, it was a relatively clean break, so it's remained in position. The bone has remained in position. I don't require surgery. I will have to rest it, though. It's a broken ankle.

That's probably the biggest difference from a hamstring to different injuries. You can play through pain with other injuries. But as I found out quickly with a hamstring, if you're feeling any pain, eventually, it's not going to work.

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.