Dietrich Mateschitz Quotes

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

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.

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

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

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.

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

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

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

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

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.

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.

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it.

There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.

Most of my fans know I love video games. I say it in every interview, so they know. But one thing that I like doing is skateboarding, I like jet skiing, skydiving. It's like a huge roller coaster ride. Like forty seconds of free-falling. That's some of the stuff I love, daredevil stuff. I like horseback riding.

Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff.

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

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.