Peak Experience Quotes

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

When you feel like you are performing at your best, it's a beautiful feeling.

It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

There are moments when you act that you actually disappear from your body, and that's amazing. That's better than any drug, I would imagine. People take drugs to disappear from themself, and that's what it feels like when you hit that moment.

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though.

That feeling in the dressing room after you win - nothing comes close to that. You can't get that in any other career. Maybe in the stock market back in the '80s when people were making tons of money, maybe they felt something similar. Maybe. But look at the market now. Nothing gives you that emotion like sports. Nothing. Am I wrong?

I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

How do I get better once I've had the best?

There's a moment on the arch of a jump, when you are neither rising nor falling. All you can see is the sky. All you can feel is the air and all you can hear is your heartbeat. That is all you are. Muscle and motion. It's called the deadpoint. I live for that.

The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.