If you break your sternum or your ribs, you can still move. It's going to hurt, but if you can cope with it, you'll do it.

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

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.

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.

If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens.

You would have to cope with those make or break claims. As you can see, I am not in an ideal situation. I am in a terrible situation.