Quotes from Mike Hughes

There are 20 different space agencies here in America, and I'm the last person that's put a man in a rocket and launched it.

I'm tired of people saying I chickened out and didn't build a rocket. I'm tired of that stuff. I manned up and did it.

People think I'm rich and I'm making all this money off these rocket launches. Hell I'm on Medicaid!

Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.

Basically I have claimed legal entities for very famous people - they can't even exist - which are Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Warren Edward Buffett. I own the legal entities they're operating under. They know this.

The thing is, most of these courts in San Bernardino know who I am and they've researched me. In fact, a couple of judges have asked me how my back's doing, when my next launch is, so they know who I am. Some of the bailiffs wave hi to me because they follow me on Facebook and see my launch. People know who I am.

I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11.

I'm a daredevil. I'm not much for authority or rules.

I want to validate that I'm the greatest daredevil in daredevil history.

I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket.

Very few people will roll the dice with their lives. I play Russian roulette.

I am the best hope to prove the Flat Earth.

I believe the Earth is flat.

I've had people say so much, that I'm a fraud. I've had people email me and say, 'You're going to die.'

Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? I believe it is. Do I know for sure? No. That's why I want to go up in space.

My story really is incredible. It's got a bunch of story lines - the garage-built thing. I'm an older guy. It's out in the middle of nowhere, plus the flat Earth. The problem is it brings out all the nuts also, people questioning everything. It's the downside of all this.

I woke up in my apartment one day, about seven years ago and I thought, I'll do the Knievel rocket jump.'

It is not a computer generated image, like you see on TV or some movie in Hollywood - this is the real thing a guy built, a rocket he's sitting in it and he can be dead in 10 seconds.

This magical little thing called gravity does not exist - it's all electromagnetism, OK. No one knows what is in the center of this earth, no one!

I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that's not science, that's just a formula.

I'm a walking reality show.

I expect to see a flat disk up there. I don't have an agenda. If it's a round Earth or a ball, I'm going to come down and say, 'Hey guys, I'm bad. It's a ball, OK?'

We are supposed to come to the end of our lives not with anything left, but everything exhausted. The tires are blown down, your out of gasoline, you are coming to a screeching halt - you know you have done everything you can possible do.

I want to inspire others - and you have to do something incredible to get anybody's attention.