Terry Pratchett Quotes

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

There's a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don't think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.

But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.

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 spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

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.

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

With less and less races people will want to take more risks.

You can, maybe, do something like Annapurna once in a lifetime. Then don't try to do it again.

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

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

If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

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

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

I love doing stunts.

I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or jumping out of planes. I'm into all that crazy stuff.