Roy Harper Quotes

I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.

I love adrenaline. I like senseless violence.

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

I love the fast lane.

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.

Skydiving is a rush. Doing it naked could be more of a rush, but it's nothing I would ever consider.

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.

I live to feel myself in danger.

I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

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 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?

One thing I got to do that was awesome was hang off the side of this Ferris wheel and do that stunt myself.

I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push their limits and all that. To me, that seems foolish, and there's no point.

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

After I finished racing in the United States, I received a lot of criticism for being dangerous, a little bit stupid, insane, you name it.

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 was living a dangerous life before I started boxing.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

I like to fly close to the edge. I like to play with fire.