I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having good people around me all the time, and they have given me the right advice for my body.

I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

All around the world, people want to be loved.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.

Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.

A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.