Quotes About Adrenaline

The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

I'm excited by going 85 mph, head-first, down an ice track.

I don't know of any other driver on the track that doesn't get hot under the collar.

When someone tells me they've never been to a race, I tell them that the first one they should go to is Bristol, Tennesee. The shape of the track, the energy, and excitement under the lights is similar to what you might get at a stick-and-ball game in college football or the NFL.

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

It's all about racing on the track.

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

Racing is a dangerous sport, but weve worked very hard to make it safer. We always have, the drivers, the teams, the governing bodies, the tracks.

I really like the really high banked tracks.

I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.

Talladega is one of the macho tracks on the circuit and when I was a kid, I remember everyone wanting to go watch this race because the cars go so fast on the circuit; there were so many great battles.

Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.

Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you.

I delight in what I fear.

Going fast is never the problem... It begins the moment one realises that things are out of control...

You're never so alive as when you're on the verge of death.

Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased.

Doesn't the thought of marryin' me give you an adrenaline rush?

I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.

Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

For me, my favorite scenes, when I'm in my comfort zone, are the fighting scenes Those are my favorite to do, so I'd love to have more of those.

My band and music are so intense they scare me, and I'm not afraid of anything. We love our music with everything we got and deliver the most inebriating fun concerts on earth every night.

Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.