Luc Montagnier Quotes

I always knew about the risks I was taking. Every year, someone you knew was killed racing. You had to ask yourself, do you enjoy driving these cars so much that you're prepared to take that risk?

You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on - that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone.

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

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

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window... I love doing all of that stuff.

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all.

I enrolled in a race car driving school, where you go for three days, and they wanted to rent me a video camera and charge me $100 for every half-hour.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

You're the only man I know who would light a match to look into a gas can.

The risk taking profile is very different for a woman than that of a man.

I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there, I told him it was no place for the Chief of Staff.