Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.

I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

I should ask to be paid by the amount of pounds I coach.

He can't do any more than win. He jumped well out of that ground. When I walked the course earlier it was tacky and I thought we might only be second. He's on track for the Champion Chase and will go straight there. He's a better horse on better ground, we know that from the form-book. I'm happy with him, and so was Tony.

I've always held this horse in the highest regard. He has a high cruising speed and a lot of boot, and when you have that in a horse who stays as well, you've got yourself a real racehorse.