Tony McCoy Quotes

A game is not won until it is lost.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Technology is like the ante in a poker game. It is the price you pay to play the game. But it doesn't mean you are going to win.

I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.

The key is not being overconfident. You should not think that because I'm a top-ranked player, I will win this game. You have to be focused.

This is motor racing, and things can change pretty quickly.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

In the marathon anything can happen.

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.