Quotes About Adventure

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

I spent ten years riding motorcycles.

The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

People tend to think of the quest as a sort of fanciful or fantastical form, but actually, I think it's pretty realistic. I think that story of gathering allies to your side - recruiting your band of companions - actually matches the shape of most great careers, most great lives.

In films, we tend to come up with something new all the time. Challenges and experiments are new at every stage.

I think after orbiting for a while and looking at the surface, I think the natural tendency is to want to experience it, to go down there and touch it. I started thinking about the Apollo astronauts who orbited the moon and didn't land - that must have been agonizing!

We all want to be carried away to a whole other world and have romantic tendencies about escaping to an exotic place and being swept off our feet.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye.

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.

My bucket list tends to relate to travel or eating.

The majority of the time I live out of a rucksack in some jungle or stuck up some mountain. The luxury tends to be when my wife and children are there.

I think one of the things about reinforcement learning is that it tends to require exploration. So using it in the context of physical systems is somewhat hard.

The food in central Asia is not so great: it tends to be horse.

I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

I would be happy to do more sightseeing. I would love to do more after my tennis career.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.

I do rock climbing and tennis.

As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.