Words matter. These are the best Helmet Quotes from famous people such as Dan Fogler, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Bret Bielema, Nico Rosberg, Felipe Massa, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
‘Mars Needs Moms’ was motion capture, where you walk into a space that’s essentially a black box with cameras everywhere. It was so technical. You have these mandibles with cameras on your face and a helmet, and you have to hit certain marks. You couldn’t shoot this stuff without the green-screen aspect.
If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer’s brain, couldn’t it also destroy a football player’s brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can’t fully protect the head from damaging impact.
You can’t tap somebody in the helmet and say, ‘Go be physical.’ If you’re not physical, you can’t play physical, and that’s a big part of what we believe in.
Winning at Monaco feels unbelievable, because it’s such a special race and it’s also my home race. My first memories were of watching Ayrton Senna here with his yellow helmet, and one day dreaming to win the Monaco GP.
I don’t want to be the king, ‘I don’t need that, I want to race even without the helmet, I am the king.’ I am not like that. I just want to make things better for the drivers and for the safety.
When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.
I put my old player helmet on sometimes.
I’m a firm believer that there’s no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill.
The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn’t look good and tends to ruin your hair.
He played football too long without a helmet.
In Formula 1, the neck is really important. There’s a lot of force that’s going to your head. We also have a helmet and it’s not that light. When it’s all about g-force, all of that extra weight in the helmet compounds and puts more and more pressure.
I literally started skating handrails when I was seven years old, with no helmet on, so I was just bred into this type of skating where you have to be kind of fearless and just go for it.
Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
I hope I help lead my son’s high school team to a state championship by the time I’m 45. I don’t think I’m gonna have a helmet on when I’m 45.
I think in a lot of ways, I handle the leadership role a little different than others. I’m not going to rah-rah or slap you across the helmet or push you. I’m going to talk to you.
I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house – like the sticks, the helmet.
What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.
I like the Nova Corps; I just don’t like Nova that much! He’s okay, you know? I just don’t like that helmet!
The majority of people scrape their less dense hair back into a bobble or a braid, whereas I actually have massive challenges getting my hair into a helmet. Going into Rio, trying to get my ‘fro into a helmet was a big issue.
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it’s completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I’ve read that I wear a football helmet in the car.
Pretty much all the drivers I get on with, at least to say ‘Hi’ and have a conversation. But when the helmet’s on, you don’t care who it is. You have no sympathy: someone blows an engine in front of you, if it means you gain a position, then you’re smiling.
I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They’ve seen me come home from so many runs and asked, ‘What’s on your skin? How did you get it?’ And I tell them, ‘It’s from exercise!’ So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, ‘Look, Mom. I’m sweating! I just worked out!’
‘Fowl Space’ was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have ‘Fowl Space.’
I’m amazed people talk about my helmet – saying it makes me feel psychologically better. I would love to play without it, but I’m not allowed to by the doctor. As long as I’m told by the doctor I’m running too much risk to play without it, I’ll play with it. There’s no other way for me.
I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.
I worked with a skateboarding instructor for three hours every day. We would go to the park and do ramps. I had to wear a ridiculous amount of gear – elbow pads, knee pads, every kind of pad, plus a helmet – to stop myself from getting hurt.
People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.
The 70’s hair with the long on the sides, just doesn’t look good coming down the sides of the helmet.
I remember ‘Battlestar Galactica’ shot at the college that my dad taught at. I remember trying on a Cylon helmet. I think I was 6 or 7 years old.
I’ve had knee trouble, and I worry about my shoulder, but I think my weakest link is my head. A helmet can only do so much, and I have seen the effects of brain injuries. That is a big fear. I think everyone’s weakest link is their brain because it’s their most fragile link.
Even wrestling, now, I wear the helmet all the time. I’m not going to make that mistake again ever in my life.
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
Yes, Clay Matthews has a long, golden, Fabio-esque flowing mane that most women would chick-slap someone for. And yes, the shiny, beautiful, dark locks that cascade out of Troy Polamalu’s helmet are the envy of volume-challenged women and bald men everywhere. But do we need to talk about it incessantly?
I get asked one question a lot: ‘What celebrity encounter would render you starstruck?’ The answer is simple – anyone who’s ever strapped on a Redskins helmet, much less coached them to three Super Bowls.
Once the surgeon said the skull is strong enough with the helmet on, I decided to return to training with the team.
The moment I prefer is the moment I put on the helmet, that everyone is leaving the pit lane, that I’m alone with the car and there it feels good. You don’t have any feelings anymore; it’s just racing and this I enjoy.
I don’t like a snug-fit helmet.
The brain is suspended in a kind of thick jelly inside the skull, and a helmet can’t keep it from sloshing around. If you hit your head hard enough, the brain goes bashing against the walls of the skull.
The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was ‘Return of the Jedi.’ I can remember seeing Darth Vader’s helmet come off. The shock of that moment.
I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.
When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It’s more comfortable in my helmet.
I have the deepest admiration for Angela Palmer and her work so having my helmet as her subject has been a true honour for me. I think the sculpture is stunning and very striking, it’s the most incredible combination of strength with fragility.
A helmet is the most important part of any jockey’s kit because of the number of falls you take, so I wouldn’t want to be wearing anything on the track unless it had been thoroughly tested.
Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do – that’s the part I’m nervous about.
When you put your helmet on and you’re in the race, I find that’s just everything there is in the world.
The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I’d send him a helmet, he’d send me an autographed platinum record. I thought that was a pretty sweet swap.
I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It’s nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.
In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don’t realize what I’m doing. I’ll snap back to reality and I realize, ‘Hey, I just ripped that boy’s helmet off,’ or, ‘I’m over here twisting this guy’s knee.
Once, when I was driving my bike with my helmet on, two girls recognized me by just looking at my eyes.
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?
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