Aaron Patzer Quotes

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

I like to go rock scrambling.

I'll try anything once. It's always good to see peoples' faces surprised - surprised that I race, or that I surf, that I trekked through the Himalayas. As long as I don't die, I'm good.

It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.

... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

We ride and never worry 'bout the fall. Guess that's just the cowboy in us all.

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt.

There's a fine line between being a sicko and an adventurous spirit.

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure