Ellen Hollman Quotes

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

I love doing action movies, I love pushing myself to the limit.

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

I ran a marathon, completed a mud run and jumped from a plane.

I snowboard because I love it. It's just a cool way to be out there and doing something different instead of going to college.

I want to do a few crazy things like skydiving and bungee jumping. I am quite an adventure junkie.

This sport's crazy.

I've never seen anything that I didn't want to jump off of.

I can't see myself doing something as astonishing as jumping of a chopper. I find it stupid.

We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

This is a crazy sport.

There's a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don't think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.

I used to do crazy tricks. I would stand on the seat, wheelies, stuff like that.

I know it is a dangerous sport but this is something I like.

I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I'm up for it.

I don't think really we need to race in F1 just to risk your life, or to be in danger is nice for the people. I don't think it's really like that.

I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

I'm an adrenaline guy. I need to feel it.

You never hold back. If I turn up to the track and feel cautious or not committed, I turn around and go home. If you don't have that full commitment when you're pedaling into a 40-foot jump, there's not much room for error, and you'll come off worse.

I never went bungee jumping. The closest I did was I was born.

It was dangerous stuff. We were running on top of moving trains. We got to do amazing things. I like doing stuff like that. I enjoy it. But believe me, there were things that were so dangerous that I wasn't touching them.

I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.