Rick Allen Quotes

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

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.

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

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

To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.

I'm lucky to be alive.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand.

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

In 1978, I had a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas. There was a point when I could have lost my right arm - but it was good because it forced me to slow down and take a break.

In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand. I am shaken but fortunate to be alive.

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

The storm dropped a house on her head.

We just had a near-life experience!

You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.

Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.

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

Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.

They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?

I almost drowned in the Hooghly river, which is something really crazy. If there is something about Calcutta that scares me, it's that.