Rulon Gardner Quotes

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.

It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.

As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.

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

I don't like Las Vegas. I'd rather be mountain biking or climbing.

I loved to fall down.

Yeah, I'm a physical kind of guy. I've always liked being physical. It takes a stuntman to really say, 'Look, we don't want you to do this. No, no, I'm serious, you're not going to do this' to get me not to do my stuff.

I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

I like action more than anything touchy-feely.

I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.

I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.

I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.

I do kung fu. I box. I ride horses. I like to race cars in a crazy way.

We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.

Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've probably jumped four metres on to grass and two metres between buildings. It's nothing like you see on the Internet, with guys jumping off skyscrapers, but it's fun.

I've got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all and get real down and dirty.

Every time I dive, I feel an adrenaline rush like I did that first time. Until my body fails on me, I will keep going.

When you're a teenager, you could do a lot more crazy things, and your body recovers faster.

All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom.

If you play tennis it is to have these moments, moments of adrenaline, where it gets dangerous. It is a bit masochistic.

I take a lot of risks in the ring.

That is why I can never walk away from wrestling because there's this moment - the bell rings and everything slips away. The path, the future. There's nothing but that moment right in front of you where the intensity is high, the risk and reward are high, and you have to enter into a mental state that doesn't allow for hesitation.