Lucy Walker Quotes

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.

I work out a lot, but I like to do action sports. A lot of surfing, mountain-biking.

I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

This is a crazy sport.

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.

The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

I ski, I surf, I scuba dive... any sport that starts with an 's.'

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.

I felt good when I did a stunt, and if it was really dangerous - like if I got out on a horse or a bull that was rank, or jumped out of this building on a bag - I felt great.

I came up with the idea of a daredevil who's going to go upside down, in a metal car, at 90 mph, and it's never been done before. I get into this metal car, I'm strapped in. You pull back, and it's a roller coaster at Magic Mountain, with kids and nuns and everything else! I pass out while everybody else is having a wonderful time.

I was always an adrenaline junkie, always competitive, always a speed freak.

They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

Anything that's slightly dangerous and gets the heart rate going is my kind of workout.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it.