Quotes About Adventure

I was always into different stuff: custom cars, electrical, construction, tattooing, decor, you name it.

It's easy to play it safe, but the reality is that if you want to keep changing the world for customers, which we all want to do, you have to make bets and you have to be willing to fail.

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.

As a kid I used to always write these stories... some of them were really cute; some of them were kind of crazy.

I love checking out new cities when I'm on tour - it's fun and eye-opening. I always look for cute cafes and good shopping.

I love cycling.

I love cycling, I do it all the time.

I like to dabble in a lot of things.

Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.

I'm considered the 'old daddy of adventure.'

If you've got a daft idea, it's probably good to have a go.

I don't have a daily routine at all.

I don't think many of us face the same sort of physical adventures our ancestors did, at least not on a daily basis.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.

I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.

My dad had a habit of giving me the Abdullah the Butcher matches as well as the ones with tables and chairs - basically, the matches that went all over the building.

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there's a voice in you that says, 'I don't know, that's risky,' or 'That's challenging,' then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it's bad, it's bad. You're gonna get over it.