The motivating speaker Anthony McCoy is known as the world’s greatest jockey. He has dominated his sport for over 2 decades, making him one of the UK’s highest profile sporting talents. Sir Anthony, also known as “AP”, is the only sportsman of his kind to have been awarded ‘BBC Sports Personality of the Year’ in 2010, to receive the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at SPOTY in 2015 & ‘BT’s Outstanding Contribution to Sport Award’.
Sir Anthony McCoy ended a truly phenomenal career in April 2015 as Champion Jockey for the 20th consecutive year, recording 4348 wins (which includes the 2010 Grand National, the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase & King George VI Chase). He spent his career setting records which will not be broken in our lifetime - a tribute to his stamina, endurance, motivation and dedication to the world of sport.
Sir AP McCoy is an exceptional keynote, after-dinner, corporate and motivational speaker and his lively Q&A sessions are unparalleled. He also speaks at global “Sport Meets Business” forums & events. His experience, humour and humble personality endears him to any audience –his fear of failure, his drive to be the best, to succeed at all times, his mental / physical / motivational techniques, his anecdotal stories from the saddle, breaking his bones over 700 times & and his insight into the pressures and dangers of the sport makes for a lively Q&A.
A documentary style film about our speaker Anthony McCoy is currently top of the iTunes film chart, having been recently in over 200 cinemas across the UK and Ireland. “Being AP” has premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (just 20 from 6000 films were chosen), in Dublin and in London. He has also written autobiographies such as “Winner: My Racing Life” and a fictional book “Taking the Fall”.