Albert II, Prince of Monaco Quotes

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

I'm excited by going 85 mph, head-first, down an ice track.

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

I love to ski and drive fast cars and the thrill of exciting things.

There are some people in Monaco who aren't thrilled at the idea of me going down an ice track in a sled going 90 miles an hour. But they've accepted it.

There's times when I'll be out in the middle of the track, standing in the curve, and I'll just laugh. 'What the heck am I doing right now? I'm sliding down the hill at crazy speeds and standing in freezing cold weather.'

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen.

Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.

I ski, I snowboard, I've started to get into skydiving a little bit. I'm a little bit of a thrill-seeker.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.

There's still nothing I love more than being in the air. I've always liked speed and things on wheels, going out there and putting it all out there, being on the edge.

I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

I haven't gone sky diving yet and I want to do that, real bad. I love adrenaline and going fast.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.