SKYDIVING QUOTES II
quotations about skydiving
The skydiving experience isn't without a myriad of perks: you'll receive a photograph of yourself taken upon mid-air exit of the aircraft, with your face hideously contorted into a look of abject horror. You'll also get a personal logbook completed by your instructor charting the details of each jump, and you'll be presented with a much-deserved certificate of achievement. A video service is available too, but best of all, you'll have a sensational reserve of cocktail chatter for months to come!
MATT MARANIAN
L.A. Bizzaro!
Skydiving is such a thrill. Trying to eat a burger added to it. But I prefer to enjoy the view.
JOHN LEONETTI
"Spokane chef chows down artisan burger at 2 miles up", Spokane Spokesman, July 20, 2017
If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.
DAN POYNTER
Expert Witness Handbook
Skydiving is a risky sport. Most of the skydivers that you know have had some incidents. It's like everything else. You fall at hockey, get up, keep playing. Keep going again.
BOB VERRET
"Central Saanich to ask Transport Canada to investigate Capital City Skydiving", CHEK News, August 1, 2017
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
TONI MORRISON
attributed, Ebony, October 1988
As far as safety is concerned, you're far safer statistically riding a parachute down from incredible heights than you are getting into your car every morning to go to work.
MICHAEL TANENBAUM
"Watch Will Smith convince you to buck up and go skydiving", Philly Voice, April 18, 2017
You know you're a skydiver when ... your friends think it's funny when you are sleeping to blow a fan in your face and set a beeper off near your ear.
ANONYMOUS
If I could stand in an open airplane doorway two-and-a-half miles above the ground and will myself to step into empty space, then I could do anything.
DAVE STEIN
How Winners Sell
Only skydivers know why the birds sing. They never have to pack a parachute.
ANONYMOUS
By the time you reach your skydiving height, you will actually be excited to leave that airplane for the safety of a parachute.
DAN OSHINSKY
"14 Things You Should Know Before You Go Skydiving For The First Time", Buzzfeed, April 11, 2014
In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.
DEAN KEITH SIMONTON
Greatness
There is an art ... or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Life, the Universe and Everything
You don't need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
ANONYMOUS
I have always wondered what it would be like to fly. As a kid, I used to pretend that I was an airplane, a bird, anything that flew through the air. I ran through the yard with my arms spread out like an airplane, simulating weird engine noises whenever I would make a turn or go into a steep dive. Well, last weekend I got to fly for the first time, and it wasn't by riding in an airplane. It was by jumping out of one.
ANAMIKA OJHA
"Skydiving: My First Tandem Jump Experience", Huffington Post, May 14, 2017
You know you're a skydiver when ... you try to convince the flight attendant on a commercial flight that you'd really be much more comfortable sitting on the floor.
ANONYMOUS
Skydivers: good to the last drop.
ANONYMOUS
If you're skydiving for the first time, you're probably doing a tandem dive ... you're not skydiving as much as you're being voluntarily thrown out of an airplane by a complete stranger.
DAN OSHINSKY
"14 Things You Should Know Before You Go Skydiving For The First Time", Buzzfeed, April 11, 2014
It's gloriously adrenaline-charged, it's airborne, and it's challenging for even an accomplished athlete.
SPENSER MESTEL
"Why competitive indoor skydiving is the workout of the future", Men's Fitness, August 15, 2017
All I can say that I felt freedom. Skydiving is intoxicating more than marijuana/alcohol or any drug on this planet. It's enough to mess with your mind!
ANAMIKA OJHA
"Skydiving: My First Tandem Jump Experience", Huffington Post, May 14, 2017
You know you're a skydiver when ... you refer to your recent break-up as an "intentional cut-away".
ANONYMOUS