A biography for Mike Hugheshasn’t been written yet.
“This flat Earth has nothing to do with the steam rocket launches, it never did, it never will. I'm a daredevil!”
“Basically I have claimed legal entities for very famous people - they can't even exist - which are Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Warren Edward Buffett. I own the legal entities they're operating under. They know this.”
“There's no difference between science and science fiction.”
“We are supposed to come to the end of our lives not with anything left, but everything exhausted. The tires are blown down, your out of gasoline, you are coming to a screeching halt - you know you have done everything you can possible do.”
“I'm tired of people saying I chickened out and didn't build a rocket. I'm tired of that stuff. I manned up and did it.”
“People want the security, the insurance, the 401K, and all that stuff and it's all crap, OK. There is no such thing as security. What you've got is right now - you don't have tomorrow; you don't have next week. You have right now.”
“Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? I believe it is. Do I know for sure? No. That's why I want to go up in space.”
“I'm an old-time cowboy. I'm an outlaw.”
“I want to inspire others - and you have to do something incredible to get anybody's attention.”
“Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.”
“I'm not going to take anyone else's word for it, or NASA, or especially Elon Musk with SpaceX. I'm going to build my own rocket right here and I'm going to see it with my own eyes what shape this world we live on.”
“I don't know how much more I can man up, okay?”
“I am the best hope to prove the Flat Earth.”
“It is not a computer generated image, like you see on TV or some movie in Hollywood - this is the real thing a guy built, a rocket he's sitting in it and he can be dead in 10 seconds.”
“Be responsible for what you do. Don't throw trash on the highway, take care of animals, if you see someone in need you help them. That's what I want people to concentrate on instead of just grabbing everything you possibly can for yourself, which is how we're taught in this country.”
“I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that's not science, that's just a formula.”
“I think the world needs this - somebody out there to question everything, and put their money where their mouth is.”
“I woke up in my apartment one day, about seven years ago and I thought, I'll do the Knievel rocket jump.'”
“People think I'm rich and I'm making all this money off these rocket launches. Hell I'm on Medicaid!”
“Very few people will roll the dice with their lives. I play Russian roulette.”