Cynthia Rowley Quotes

I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.

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

I try to lead a pretty active lifestyle. My biggest hobby is traveling with my family. I love to travel to new places and try crazy things. I'm a bit of a daredevil, so I have done things like zip lining, parasailing, scuba diving, and reverse bungee jumping!

I'll try anything once. It's always good to see peoples' faces surprised - surprised that I race, or that I surf, that I trekked through the Himalayas. As long as I don't die, I'm good.

I want to do things - scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I'm an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.

I ski, I surf, I scuba dive... any sport that starts with an 's.'

I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.

For the first time in long time, I can say I love what I do. I can't say that every day is easy or fun, but there are few greater thrills in life than hurling yourself down an iced-over water slide in a carbon fiber bathtub.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.

I never went bungee jumping. The closest I did was I was born.

Tighten my headband for an extra rush.

I think the ideal job in that alternative universe would be to lead whitewater rafting trips through the Grand Canyon. So maybe I'd be a guy leading whitewater rafting trips at the Grand Canyon. Or maybe a professional skydiver.

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.

I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.

People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.

I just thought it would be a fun rush of adrenaline to jump out of a plane three times.

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

I love doing action movies, I love pushing myself to the limit.

I don't think you can be a diver without a shark on the list.

I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.