Quotes About Adventure

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.

New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.

In racing, you want to win - there are no rules, and you can do whatever you want. Flying a plane is the opposite: you respect rules and fly to the rules. You can't possibly compare the two.

I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it.

I like road-course racing.

Racing's in my blood. My mum met my dad when she went to buy her first motorbike in his shop.

I grew up wearing free racing T-shirts.

I grew up with a brother racing dirt bikes and me riding my pony around, trying to see what the boys were up to.

I used to build ramps in my back garden. It was more about having a bit of fun than racing.

If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation.

In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is my favorite movie, and it's why I wanted to be an actor.

The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

I watched 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' about 90 times and knew every word.

We lived on anarchist farms, squatted in the inner city, and hopped rail cars. We wanted to see how other young people were creating meaning from their lives.

As I got older, I lived right next next to the Long Island Railroad, so in junior high and high school I'd just jump on the train with friends and head to the city. We'd run away from the conductors, hide from them in the bathroom. It was just what you did.

If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

If you are a fan of my BBC series 'Great Continental Railway Journeys,' you'll probably not be surprised to learn that one of my great aspirations is to travel on Egypt's railways.