Quotes About Adrenaline

I really can't tell you the feeling I feel, like, being on stage: it's such a high; it's like running a marathon. You just can't get that feeling anywhere else.

My heart - which, thrilled at my daring, had held its breath for a moment or two - began suddenly to beat quite wildly

said that fear is "excitement without breath.")

This, she thought inanely, is the part where I am supposed to run. Oh, and that screaming thing

this ain't the 4-H rodeo at the Pocahontas County Fair.... this is horse racing

Conquering fear is riding the Roller Coaster high up into the Sky. And experiencing the big drop down to the ground. The Adrenaline high, for flight, or fight."

Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and thinks.

But rituals are important to the men who run prisons, and nothing gets their adrenaline pumping like an execution. Their little lives are mundane and monotonous, but occasionally the world tunes in when it's time to kill a killer. No effort at heightened drama is to be missed.

He'd complained to his doctor. "The beta-blockers are blocking my memories!" Juan Diego cried. "They are stealing my childhood—they are robbing my dreams!" To his doctor, all this hysteria meant was that Juan Diego missed the kick his adrenaline gave him. (Beta-blockers really do a number on your adrenaline.)

The rock has strange powers. When you rub it, and run down the hill, the adrenaline flows. It's the most emotional experience I've ever had.

It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.

Admit it. You feel kind of like a badass speeding through those school zones in the morning.

Getting that nervous feeling on the track...

I did not scream, not yet. I had a series of odd thoughts as adrenaline blasted through my body. "Do I want to die to this song? It's a good song but do I want to die to it? What song would be a good song to die to? I should make a death playlist for my iPod for when I have time to decide before I die what song I want to hear. I'm an older guy. I could be on a treadmill and feel a pain shooting down my arm. Better pick a tune, fast.

For example, fatigue produces an increase in adrenaline concentrations. That is, when we are tired, our body chemically responds with a burst of adrenaline to give us more drive or energy.

Oh, bullshit," Jenkins said. "You do it because you like it, because you get that feeling in your balls like you're in a falling elevator, and you like it. We all like it. We get all grim and warriored-up about it, but the bottom line is, we like it." "That's somewhat true," Shrake admitted. "That's why Davenport does it: it's better than money," Jenkins said. "You guys bum me out sometimes," Virgil said.

A fourth part of his brain was saying, This is the part where you run and scream a lot. He was listening to the fourth part.

My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn't that bad (I have a strong heart), it's the sudden stops that are painful. Believe me — I experienced it once.

Fear is exciting for me.

I'm not happy unless I've got a little bit of fear going.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

Life is like a roller coaster. its one wild ride, but worth every second!