Tony McCoy Quotes

I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to perform their best whenever they are at work.

Tony McCoy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 4, 1974

Topics

WorkMyselfBestDayPressureFeel

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

Jessica Valenti

LoveTruthYourselfPeopleBusyYou

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

John le Carre

ChildhoodBalanceGreenThinkFeel

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

John Williams

BestCompetitionWorldCooperation

I've always viewed 'Sons of the Prophet' as the first part of a larger trilogy - not three plays dependent on each other but three stand-alone plays connected by theme and, likely, further adventures of the Douaihy family.

Stephen Karam

FamilyThreeConnectedFirstTheme

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

Mickey Gilley

I CanNowFiftyCutSellSeven

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

Jason Statham

LifeFreeYouPrivate LifeOpenGot

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

Jose Manuel Barroso

SonBornKnowWhyConservative

I write most of my music in my house, which is like a tree house.

Chord Overstreet

MusicTreeHouseWriteLikeMost

When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.

Bozoma Saint John

PeopleMeGrowing UpBrandPowerful

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Arianna Huffington

LoveFearMoreNo LoveSurfaceKids

I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.

Peter Hook

GreatJoyMeReadingKingsSaid

I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

Shigeru Miyamoto

ExperienceThinkFeelFeedbackYou

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