66 Dangerous Sports Quotes

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Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out. — Valentino Rossi

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. — Dave Barry

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part. — Lewis Hamilton

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway

Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports. — Nirmal Purja

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate. — William Davis

Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter. — Neil Bonnett

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. — Heyneke Meyer

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up. — William Holden

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill. — Erma Bombeck

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. - Hunter S. Thompson

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports. - Tom Welling

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports. — Tom Welling

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks. — Roger Bannister

Short Dangerous Sports Quotes

  • IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous. — Alastair Cook
  • The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers. — Ayrton Senna
  • Live dangerously and you live right. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. — Murray Walker
  • Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances. — Roger Bannister
  • The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field — Wendy Mass
  • If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho
  • Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. — Paul Rodriguez
  • Danger can only be overcome by more danger — Greek Proverbs
  • Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. — Gene Tunney

Dangerous Sports Image Quotes

Dangerous sports quote The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.

Extreme Sports Quotes

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. — Doris Brown Heritage

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 its called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports. — Dietrich Mateschitz

Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ. — Elon Musk

Dangerous sports quote Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second. — Michael Johnson

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud. — Andrew Sullivan

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go — Jens Lehmann

Dangerous sports quote The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.
The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.

I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured. — Colton Haynes

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. — Hunter S. Thompson

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common. — Lucy Walker

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. — Felix Baumgartner

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More Dangerous Sports Quotes

Dangerous sports quote The real workout starts when you want to stop.
The real workout starts when you want to stop.

But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box. — Ruud van Nistelrooy

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. — Erma Bombeck

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions. — Nevil Shute

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry. — John Newcombe

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous. — Sebastian Vettel

The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour. — Elliott White Springs

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now. — Ivan Lendl

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things. — Billy Sunday

there's a lot of dangerous sports. You know, my opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that I'll give it to probably boxing. Then there's some other extreme sports out there, motocross where you're really risking your neck every time you go out there and do it. — Jon Jones

It looks like I have a thing for dangerous sports, don't I? — Danica Patrick

I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous. — Lincoln Hall

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury. — Fran Lebowitz

His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours. — Arthur Conan Doyle

You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates. — Tim Tebow

I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been. — Shaun White

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous. — Shaun White

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it. — Valentino Rossi

My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day. — Liz Halliday

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park. — Ty Cobb

When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose. — Sun Tzu

I tell kids not to be on the Internet. It's dangerous. It's not fun. It wastes your life. You should just be outside playing sports, instead of sitting in front of any type of screen. — Miley Cyrus

Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries. — Jonathan Gottschall

I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban. — Jonathan Gottschall

If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison. — Anton Szandor LaVey

If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes. — L. Ron Hubbard

While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games. — Sam Sifton

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit. — Barry Humphries

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