Annie Lennox Quotes

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

I know it is a dangerous sport but this is something I like.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

I've never been able to sky-dive, and I've always wanted to. I've probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won't let me do it.

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

I ski, I snowboard, I've started to get into skydiving a little bit. I'm a little bit of a thrill-seeker.

I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.

I do like adrenaline. Zip-lining is my favorite.

Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.

Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.

I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.

I'm doing some more dangerous stuff on a weekly basis than professional stunt men are doing.

You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on - that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone.

I want to do a few crazy things like skydiving and bungee jumping. I am quite an adventure junkie.

I can't see myself doing something as astonishing as jumping of a chopper. I find it stupid.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.