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.

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.

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.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a bad boy grows, the more my life moves away from that.