Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

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

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

At 19 I left school and embarked on a 9-day bike ride with friends from London to Monte Carlo.

I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti.

I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that.

I left the Navy as a lieutenant after spending almost 10 years as a helicopter pilot.

I'd like to wrestle an alligator and fly a fighter jet.

I'd never been one for leaving the comforts of home. That person wasn't me; I didn't spend my formative years youth-hostelling round Rwanda or climbing Everest in a tie-dye playsuit to raise awareness of something or other.

I've been to over 70 different countries, all seven continents. It's been just a wonderful ride, and all that is because of professional wrestling 100%.

I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.

Specifically choose not to take a GPS. Just create a challenge. You can climb Everest or walk across Antarctica with minimal gear and still have that sense of adventure. But in terms of exploration, Google Earth has this world mapped down to the square foot.

Things always evolve and change on location, especially due to the nature of travel and the waves. A lot of unexpected things happen. Often we get lucky, but we also find ourselves scrambling a lot, especially when we are looking for waves in the remote spots of those locations.

I might not earn loads, but I can proudly say that I've travelled the world, met the Queen and flown with the Red Arrows.

I've played in some spectacularly scenic grounds in Cape Town and Johannesburg, but Papua New Guinea in the Seventies was the most remote place I'd been for my cricketing career.

My parents were the only people to go to South Africa from Australia in a single engine plane... the two of them, no radio... you had to fly down low to see the street signs to know which city you were in... most people couldn't speak English.

Between the ages of 12 and 15, I wanted to be a pilot because I thought it would be glamorous and dangerous.

Adventure has to do with private, personal experiences. But, the possibilities, there are millions of unclimbed mountains - I have seen in the Eastern part of Tibet, mountains 6,000-6,500 meters high, vertical walls twice as tall as the Eiger... but nobody is going there, because they aren't 8,000-meter peaks.

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

I have traveled to three-fourths of the Philippines.

I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

Pilots are tricky because there are so many things you have to accomplish.

I wanted to be an air hostess because I thought it was the most glamorous thing - and I'd never been on a plane.

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.