Quotes About Thrill

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

fear is excitement without breath

Gacy would later state that he experienced an orgasm while stabbing McCoy. "That's when I realized that death was the ultimate thrill," he added.

As his appointment with death grew closer, Fish told reporters that he was looking forward to his execution. "It will be the only thrill I have not tried," he is reported to have said.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886

To risk is to live.

fifty feet above the rocks. The wind

If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

over me, I experienced the same thrill and amazement as when I had my first glimpse of the bright lights of Konakry. I shivered with the intensity of my desire to learn to do this wondrous thing myself.6

The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy

Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport.

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

Isn't there something in living dangerously?

The bush was alive with excitement.

These days, things were different. Much different. For the most part, what fun there was to be had at Upton Park came from the cat and mouse side of the contest. Thinking on your feet and trying to outwit old bill while still trying to get one over on the opposition. It was like a real life computer game, Theme Hooligan. He still got a buzz from it though, but not the same buzz. And he wasn't alone. The scene was dying on its arse although that wasn't always down to the police.