Narrow Escapes Quotes

I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

My father made many narrow escapes during his time in Vietnam.

After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I think a few bullets have been dodged in my 'Bachelor' journey.

I was fortunate to not get wrapped up too hard in anything that was too dangerous.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

If there's such a thing as somebody having nine lives, I guess I'm somewhat in that category.