Safety Gear Quotes

Seat belts come with a car so therefore you should be required to use them, but a helmet does not come with the bike.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

One isn't considered a bobsledder if he hasn't crashed.

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you? - It protects my head.

Leather is always sexy, and you have to wear leather when you ride a bike. It's more for protection, but it also gets you some style points, I think.

I completely fell in love with riding horses. I really didn't want to wear a helmet when I would go off with the trainer on weekends, galloping through forests and stuff. But thank God he made me, because one time, I was going under a tree and my helmet hit a branch. It literally would have taken my head off.

I remember I had to have steel toecaps because my nana said, 'They'll last,' and I remember being bullied because my shoes weren't like anyone else's. Everyone had Kickers.

I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

There's only one way kids will wear helmets, and that's if their parents are nagging them to. They will never wear helmets because some state passes a law requiring it.

I always felt stupid at the skate park. Everyone else is just wiping out and getting hurt, but they didn't even have helmets and knee pads - and I'm over here looking like some kind of marshmallow. I felt so ridiculous.

Kamal Haasan makes sure that his co-artists wear the safety gear when they perform stunts.

A lifevest protects you from drowning and a bulletproof vest protects you from getting shot, and a sweater vest protects you from pretty girls.

I know that I'll joke around to the last minute I get in the car. But once the helmet's on - it's sort of a cliche, but it's true - it's quite symbolic that that is 'go time,' and I'm ready to have some fun and be bad while I do it.

If I had my accident maybe 10 years ago I wouldn't be here now. The technology we have now, the helmets, can save your life.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Full-face helmets look stupid.

There are many things you can point to as proof that the human is not smart. But my personal favorite would have to be that we needed to invent the helmet. What was happening, apparently, was that we were involved in a lot of activities that were cracking our heads. We chose not to avoid doing those activities but, instead, to come up with some sort of device to help us enjoy our head-cracking lifestyles.

I don't like a snug-fit helmet.

I'm not a big fan of the halo as a device. I have to face facts - it does bring something in terms of safety.

Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

I do not have a helmet. But this is a wig, so it's a little protective.

When you put your helmet on and you're in the race, I find that's just everything there is in the world.