Helmets Quotes

When I was a kid I saw Kansas City Bomber (1972), and I remembered thinking how beautiful and how strong Raquel Welch`s character was. So I went home and dressed up my Barbie like her character. I borrowed one of my brother`s little toy plastic football helmets and I made Barbie a Kansas City Bomber outfit.

I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and I take tree bottles of Robitussin and drink them really quickly. Then I set my hands on fire-I have to write whatever comes to mind pretty fast, before my hand burnsoff." "I just let whatever comes out, comes out without thinking about it to much. Some of it I keep, some I toss out, some of it I turn into giant cigarettes and somke `em. I think everybodu should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody`s got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

"I saw this sign posted once, it said, `blasting zone ahead`. Wow... shouldn`t that read: Road Closed. What do you mean there`s a blasting zone, what am I supposed to do, `Hey-- ah, you might wanna buckle up, blasting zone coming up. Yeah. Just saw the sign. Put the helmets on back there! Yeah I think we`re-- (Pow!)-- Oh! We`re getting close! (Pow!)-- Oh! This is gonna be a bad blasting zone! Remember that last one--we lost Billy?"

We then decided that since we were making all the parts, why not make the shells and manufacture our own vintage suspension helmets,

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn`t come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

When they first handed me my helmet and pads, I jokingly asked, `Do I have to wear these?` ... Without being up close to the game ? television is so far away ? is that you don`t appreciate how physically fast and tough and strong and how much more they can impact the body because they have got shoulder pads and helmets. Ours is a different physically tough game.