“In a world in which we are all slaves to the laws of gravity, I’m proud to be counted as one of them freedom fighters. Skydive!”
“If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle.”
“You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation…..”
“All people who live, die. But, not all people who die have lived.”
“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.”
“The coward dies a thousand deaths.”
“Look to the skies! They are ever changing.”
“Only skydivers know why the birds sing.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
“Skydiving: It is not just a matter of life and death…it is much more important than that.”
“Anyone can fall out of an airplane; skydivers just do it right.”
“It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.” — Ernest Hemingway
“A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is waht you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk.” — Craig Elliot
“Aviation is not in itself inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than even the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.”
“Out of 10,000 feet of fall, always remember that the last half inch hurts the most.” — Captain Charles W. Purcell, 1932
“When the people look like ants-PULL,
When the ants look like people-PRAY.”