Quotes About Survival

I think the climate of wrestling has changed. I think the big guy, The Giant, The Big John Studd's of the world are an endangered species because the business has become smaller.

The reality of our world today is not every species can be left in the wild.

The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.

I wasn't really built for athleticism or speed, I always had to rely on my mind and my instincts.

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.

My role in 'Love Sonia' gripped me to the extent that I started despising the male touch. I would stand under the shower for long spells. It just didn't feel nice.

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

I think I'm always interested in the people who aren't generals or master spies or royalty. The people caught in the crossfire.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

The knowledge that in a split second that I could be dead almost overwhelms me. But it is through constant exposure to that fear that keeps me alive and lets me do what I love.

Since birth, my mother made the decision at age 16 to pretend she never had me. She has never spoken to me. Even if present in the same room with other people and family, she pretends that I simply don't exist. She pretends I'm invisible.

I've had four near-death experiences - very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I've never spoken about publicly.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.

A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.