Jimmy Chin Quotes

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.

There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.

If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the political state of the world, there are certain things which potentially could be religiously volatile that I would probably avoid, but not much.

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

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.