I can handle a bad story better than anybody as long as it's true and, you know, over a course of time, I'll make mistakes and you'll write badly and I'm OK with that. But I'm not OK when it is fake.
I'll try anything once, most things twice.
You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.
Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.
Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.
I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.