Impact Resistance Quotes

You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

For my equipment, we're not about running. We're about wheels, action sports, and that type of thing. So we want range of motion and shock absorption. The foot itself has 28 degrees of ankle motion as you press into it or you put weight into it. A typical running or walking foot has kind of around 10 to 12, at max, flex at the toe.

I've got a thick skull and big, thick bones that don't break apart easily.

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

I figured, 'Why not put goggle characteristics like peripheral protection and face fit into sunglasses?'

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

Teflon breaks if you keep hitting hard enough.

I don't like a snug-fit helmet.

In Formula 1, the neck is really important. There's a lot of force that's going to your head. We also have a helmet and it's not that light. When it's all about g-force, all of that extra weight in the helmet compounds and puts more and more pressure.

When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

I don't feel my opponent's power. I feel something happening when I get hit, but I don't feel power.

Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.