Lori Petty Quotes

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.

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

I work out a lot, but I like to do action sports. A lot of surfing, mountain-biking.

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

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

When I'm not working, as a family we are obsessed with jumping off rocks into the sea and doing dangerous things.

I'm an adrenaline guy. I need to feel it.

I was always interested in skateboarding, BMX bike riding, flipping, gymnastics. Anything with tumbling, turning, twisting, and extreme sports.

You never hold back. If I turn up to the track and feel cautious or not committed, I turn around and go home. If you don't have that full commitment when you're pedaling into a 40-foot jump, there's not much room for error, and you'll come off worse.

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

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

It was dangerous stuff. We were running on top of moving trains. We got to do amazing things. I like doing stuff like that. I enjoy it. But believe me, there were things that were so dangerous that I wasn't touching them.

I might have tried bungee jumping, until I saw that video of that guy whose cord came untied. He didn't know it 'till he hit the ground. Oh, he flew off that tower, hollering at his buddies. "Whoo, check me out, dudes! Oh, that ground is coming up..." WHAM! And what do you say, if you're the operator of that ride, to the next guy in line? "All right dude, you're up."

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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

Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.

I really love doing action and I go for it.

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 love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.

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.