Manfred von Richthofen Quotes

Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.

Nothing is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.

I once fell through a hole in the stage.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them.

I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.

There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of that ambulance.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

I don't particularly want to smear myself into a hillside.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened.

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.