Travis Pastrana
If you are pushing your sport, chances are good that you will want to be in a place that encourages and helps you reach your dreams.Collection: Dreams
I've had six surgeries on my left knee alone.Collection: Alone
Everything can change in a heartbeat.Collection: Change
Most medication that helps you sleep through pain destroys your body and leaves my mind in a mental fog.
I do think it's important for our kids to see hard work ethic. I also think it's important that you're around for them and not dead or too broken to walk.
This is what I always wanted. When I grow up, to not grow up.
My dad and uncle told me early on: There's no risk to your life or body that's worth any amount of money or fame. But if you love what you do, then ride it till the wheels fall off. And that's kind of how I've lived my life.
In rally, you come over a hill, full-lock drift, between a gate. You've got a 100-foot cliff on one side, you might have trees on the other, you might have busted out lights and you gotta figure out how to make that work. Could be snowing, could be raining, could be mud, could be pavement - you might have them all the same day.
For me, action sports are all one in the same. It's all about pushing yourself and challenging what's possible, and that can be in a sport or as an individual.
X Games is all about the experience.
At the end of the day, to get an invite to X Games is an honor.
As the ringleader of Nitro Circus, my focus is to build bigger and safer jumps and promote extreme sports so that we can try to keep them around and continue to grow them for the next generation.
I got a lot of stuff fused. Running is no longer in my repertoire.
I ride every day for fun. I ride because I love it.
I don't have ACLs in my knees, I don't like corners, I don't like ruts, I don't like putting my foot down.
My life has been one long bucket list.
You set a goal and when you accomplish that goal you figure out something else.
I dive into a sport just long enough to know what I'm doing and then do what I want to do.
I have a lot of respect for all the sports, but one sport that I look at as being a little out there is big-wave surfing.
When I had my ankle injury in 2011, I was barely walking eight months later.
Formula One isn't for me. You have to be meticulous and perfect every time.
I've had so much help form the NASCAR community.
In motocross and rally, I had dirt to dirt. I knew how to read lines, I knew how to look for traction.
I don't think there is anything more fun than driving a rally car, but I made it to the top. I needed something new.
All the best drivers in the U.S. race NASCAR, so if I want to be the best, that's where I have to go.
MythBusters' was awesome.
A lot of times reality TV feels too scripted, too staged - 'Do it again, but say this.' It's not real.
I have to stay relevant, be able to find a way to add value to the action sports community.
My job is to help people who are pushing to be the best possible.
I've had concussions literally on a weekly basis.
When your brain is not right, you get tired and you get nauseous and your body will shut itself down.
I flipped a bike into the Grand Canyon once.
I'm not a precision guy. I don't like to hit the same marks every single lap.
NASCAR, the cool aspect is it is racing, which Rally is lacking. But Rally, you go over the course in World Rally twice, but the course completely changed by the time you get there, you haven't seen it in two days. And in U.S. Rally you never see them. You might remember one corner in 100 miles of the course.
My biggest problem - and it's a good problem to have - is that I have a lot opportunities. I've had the opportunity of a lifetime a lot of times.
The motorcycle stunts have been pushed so far that people expect impossible feats in order to be entertained.
I don't want to be labeled as a stunt junkie or a daredevil.
I wanted to take a standard car and figure out how far it is possible to jump it.
I've surrounded myself with really great people and put a lot of trust in them.
If I'm in the top 20 in the Nationwide race, it'll be a huge success.
I have never been more helped or supported in anything I have done than I am in NASCAR.
I'm using rally to help get sponsors that wouldn't normally be in NASCAR into NASCAR.
You won't see NASCAR drivers getting flack for racing rally, but rally racers get flack for driving NASCAR.
I would rather fail trying than sit on the couch wondering if I could have done it.
My attribute is taking risks other people aren't willing to and working out how to survive them.
I like being thrown in the deep end. Sink or swim. The best way to learn is to be thrown in against the best.
Nothing's about taking risks as much as doing stuff that other people haven't done before.
Hunting and fishing in the woods? I'm too ADHD.
I've never killed an animal, no.
In life, the risk-to-reward is constantly changing. It changes when you're 16 years old, trying to make a name for yourself. It changes when you get married. It changes when you have kids.