SKYDIVING QUOTES
quotations about skydiving
You know what they say about skydivers, right? There are old skydivers and bold skydivers, but there are no old, bold skydivers.
JEFF WUORIO
How to Buy and Sell Just About Everything
Skydiving provides a unique combination of adrenalin-fuelled exhilaration and perfectly calm tranquillity. While in freefall it's all about the rush -- but once the parachute opens and your heart rate steadies, you'll take a moment to gaze around you and see the whole world in a new light. It's beautiful up there, and the experience is about as close to flying as humans can actually get.
DOMINIC UTTON
"Skydiving: six reasons why you should make the leap", The Telegraph, June 17, 2015
Any idiot can fly a plane, but it takes a special kind of idiot to jump out of one.
ANONYMOUS
Out of ten thousand feet of fall, always remember that the last half inch hurts the most.
CHARLES W. PURCELL
"How to Jump from a Spinning Ship", Flying Magazine, June 1931
More than a sport, skydiving is a lifestyle, a communal activity like scuba diving or surfing -- one that attracts people of all walks of life with one thing: the kind of freedom you just can't find in cubicles or workstations.
RAY BANGS & CHRIS BECKER
52 Great Weekend Escapes in Southern California
People always ask me if skydiving is safe and all that. People die skydiving. Everybody knows that. It's not a secret. People have died skydiving. We try to take out the risk as much as we can and we have done it safely for seven years on this island. Of 7,000 people I have taken up, three people rode the airplane down.
FRANK SHISLER
"Skydiving over South Padre Island", Valley Morning Star, June 22, 2017
Life is a show
Sky diving about to let go
Walkin' the wire with nothing below
Don't you know
Don't you know
Cause life is a show
In every shade of the rainbow
We're jumpin' through fire
Let's go
CASSIE STEELE
"Life Is A Show"
How does a blind parachutist know when to open his chute? When the lead on his guide dog goes slack.
ANONYMOUS
Those who don't jump will never fly.
LEENA AHMAD ALMASHAT
attributed, Triathlon: Swim, Bike, Ride
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
ANONYMOUS
You should read the skydiving waiver before you sign, if only to see how many different ways there are to describe "death by falling." If anything will convince you not to skydive, it's that waiver.
DAN OSHINSKY
"14 Things You Should Know Before You Go Skydiving For The First Time", Buzzfeed, April 11, 2014
I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying...
Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying
TIM MCGRAW
"Live Like You Were Dying"
I suspected skydiving was dangerous when they asked me to sign a waiver. They confirmed my suspicions when they asked me to pay in advance.
ANONYMOUS
You can take skydiving lessons, study aerodynamics, learn how to fold a parachute, and enter an airplane. You can put on a helmet and a parachute and stand at the door, but you still won't know what skydiving is like. There comes a point when you have to jump.
DWIGHT LONGENECKER
Adventures in Orthodoxy
To the skydiver, "flying" in a plane is akin to "swimming" in a boat; they live for the wind whipping past as they plummet toward the earth during freefall, and the thrill of floating on the air currents once their 'chutes are safely open. They live on the edge, though not in danger -- amid the elements, but not at their mercy.
RAY BANGS & CHRIS BECKER
52 Great Weekend Escapes in Southern California
Skydiving changed my mindset. I went home and told our children they could do anything and do it well.
BONNIE ROSS-PARKER
Walk in My Boots
Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.
BROCK YATES
Sunday Driver
I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed-in on Google Earth really fast.
ANONYMOUS
You swallow hard, thinking to yourself, 'It must be all right, thousands of people have done it before.' Then... 'But this time it's me -- that's the difference!'
CHARLES SHEA-SIMONDS
Sport Parachuting
Skydiving is a cheap sport to begin, but once it takes hold of you, you'll be spending 20 percent of your income.
ANONYMOUS