Jack Wild Quotes

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

I've always believed in survival.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

I'm loyal to a fault - even though I've been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it's also survival of the fittest out there.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.

Very little is known about Hugh Glass as a real guy that existed 200 years ago, except that he was attacked by a bear, betrayed and left for dead, and has to survive in the winter. I said, 'What really drives a human to survive those conditions?'

My father made many narrow escapes during his time in Vietnam.

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

We are powerful because we have survived

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.

Life is stronger than death.

when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Better to suffer than to die.