Michael Skupin Famous Quotes

You don't wanna leave, but the longer you're here the longer you want to stay here, and it's not even about winning, as much as playing, the winning will be anti-climatic, the playing is where it is for me.

• The experience alone is worth a million dollars for anyone who gets the opportunity to play.
• I think we're starting to get to know each other and people are not accustomed to this kinda lifestyle yet. I'm a little accustomed to this lifestyle, because I do hunt, I do fish, and I do camp. So it's not that foreign to me.
• We're never gonna wanna leave this place.
• You puked? Did you save it?
• I think people are starting to get a little bit edgy without food, and they don't realize how bad it's gonna get. I'm a student of nutrition and I know what is this doing to my body. But these other people have no idea, if they did they would be out fishing and hunting for food. But they don't.
• I guess the way that I can convince them of the importance of the food is by catching a lot of it, and feeling full one time and seeing what happens to the body and how much energy we will have. Maybe that's how I can convince them.
• I wanna bring food today. If I can keep providing food, I absolutely am sure I will make it in the merger. If I can't I'll become loneley.
• I've been thinking a lot about the fact that at tribal council it came out that I was the leader and I don't really wanna be seen as the leader, so if I can get something, I'll lay real low on the other leadership areas and just be the food guy.
• These are the fish eggs, I ate the stomach, and I ate the heart, the liver and the.. I think the pancreas, and these are just the left over. And we had eyeballs last night.. or two nights ago.
• The only part of the fish that we haven't eaten at this point is the extra outter core of the head, the skull.
• Kimmi, I don't know if she's been in the water once, and the dirt starting to stick to her.
• You know when the girls put a different top you will see a tan line, when Kimmi put a different top you will see a dirt line.
• Thank God we won that challenge so we can bath Kimmi.
• Ultimately, this game is about the million dollars, but you need to take small steps along the way to get
• there. And some of the small steps along the way to get there are eating because none of us are gonna win the million dollars if we don't have protein in our bodies so we can win the challenges.
• Everybody is loving the chickens, this could be the end of the game for me, because they don't need me for food sources.
• I caught one fish, then I caught a bigger one, then I caught three fish, then I caught five fish, what am I gonna do now, wrestle an alligator?
• I'm gonna find something that is alive that we are gonna kill.
• I'm very very determined to get a pig, they gotta drink sometime and it's gonna be tracks somewhere, and I'm gonna ambush one.
• I'm gonna build a spear with a knife on the end.
• I feel the need to shed some blood.
• I'm so happy about that (Hunting and killing a wild pig)
• When I butcher a deer, I use a hatchet and a knife.
• This is how I'm gonna show up at the immunity challenge. *Puts blood on his face*
• Eight city people can come out here and live off the land, it's amazing. Not only food wise, but shelter wise, and safety wise, and heat wise, and starting fire this morning with wet wood. It's just amazing to me. 
• My outlook on life has changed a hundred and eighty degrees, and I'm this kind of guy, this should be nothing for me, but I'm a changed man already after sixteen days, very changed, and if I last another sixteen days, who knows what's gonna happen to me.
• Dear God, you know I said a lot of prayers today and you answered them with fish for us. And I'm so happy to be able to provide fish for the troops. I know that this could easily get turned around in some way to make me be the leader of the tribe... but this meal is from the bottom of my heart. It makes me so happy to be able to provide for everybody here. So, thanks for that.
• The world saw that me falling in the fire was my greatest failure.
• I'm in love with the fact that I'm able to come out here and do it again.
• I recognized Lisa from the show that I watched while I was growing up.
• It almost feels like it's the first time again. It's amazing to be here. I can't even believe it. It's good.
• When I looked at the three different tribes, my tribe is the one that I would've picked.
• There is a lot of people that said maybe you should never play again because now you're opening yourself up to that the legend of what I was to what I am today. So it's a huge risk but it's what drives me.
• My strategy coming into this was make sure that you go with the game. If your tribe is moving slow go slow with them. Don't be the person that just jumps out in the lead.
• I feel I have to move fast with them or I'm in a big trouble.
• I'm cut, I have ripped skin, I chopped my head off.
• Lisa is way famous like worldwide famous like her show is on everyday for years and years and years. 
• Act first, think second. 
• RC: Did you hurt yourself again. Skupin: No. RC: Yep that's new.
• Our mask is gone.
• It shattered right in my face.
• I hit the water and I opened my eyes and I couldn't see anything.
• I fell in the fire today, this far into the game, twenty four seasons ago.
• I no longer have an advantage, we're now in all new territory for all of us.
• I never made the merge before. They merged in Australia, the day after I was medevaced so this is kinda cool and merging with numbers, even better.
• I noticed Pete and Abi, the power alliance in our tribe, being a little quiet. Because they haven’t had allegiance in weeks to RC and I, so we’re really free agents. Being free agents means you get to choose your team. It just takes two.
• I never have ever felt threatened before, and tonight, returning players are a major threat. Like My reputation is pretty competitive. My reputation isn’t being loyal to a tribe that hasn’t been loyal to me. There isn’t anybody that would think that I would go down without a fight.
• Pete, Abi and Artis can't control this game. They're just too rude.
• Pete said four words to me since we've been here.
• I just hate them.
• It just takes two people from Tandang to realign with the Kalabaw tribe then they would be six strong. Unless God himself appears live before me and speaks to me, I cannot follow Pete, Artis and Abi as long as I have some assurance that Jeff and Carter aren’t gonna switch over to the old Tandang tribe. Because if RC and I go this way and Jeff and Carter go this way, then what happened? You know nothing got gained.
• Lisa is now in this game to win it, which is great because she is my closest ally out here.
• A lot will depend on who wins immunity. The only way to be safe is to win it. And so, You're gonna see a dog fight out there today.
• Tribal council was the most amazing experience, because Lisa made her big move to save me.
• Going from it's you to it's not you in a matter of five minutes is a sense of relief.
• The game could have been flipped around with one or two more votes for Pete but whether Pete went or whether Jeff went, they're both two of the most outspoken people about getting rid of returning players. So, having one of them go is a win-win for me either way.
• I know that Penner is interested in creating something, but Lisa and I agreed on day one that we will always tell each other the truth. She orchestrated a pretty big move the other day in order to save the Tandang alliance, in order to save me.
• I want to play this game with Lisa. But I got to make sure that if I'm gonna make a bold move, that she's firmly on the side that I am choosing.
• How can we stay loyal to somebody who's not loyal to us?
• Voting Artis off tonight was my first real big move.
• I don't believe you can win this game with just one big move. I believe that there are several big moves that need to take place before the end of this game.
• Whichever way I go, I need to control this game as much as I can instead of letting somebody else control my fate, it's the only way I ever lived my life and it's the way I'm gonna play this game.
• When somebody wants to take you to the final four, you have to say strategically heck yes. Because if you say no then you could end up odd man out. And all of a sudden you're on the chopping block.
• I've committed to a final four with Malcolm. I'm not totally comfortable with it because he's a gamer and that worries me.
• I want to be the one calling the shots so I'm going to do everything I can to win the next immunity challenge.
• I have a deal to go to the final four with Malcolm but now I'm starting to re-think whether that was a smart thing to do or not because he's playing the hardest.
• The risk of changing it up again is, it could backfire. But do I anticipate our current alliance staying strong until the final four and then having this happy ending? It's not that likely in this game.
• You always think of the idol, I mean as you decide who you're gonna vote with and who you're gonna vote for and who you're gonna vote against.
• There is a lot of opportunities in every tribal council to vote which ever way you want and because it's survivor nobody really and truly knows. So it's going to get a little crazy again.
• That's a dollar and ninety nine at the local diner. (About Denise Food in Survivor Auction)
• I am not a drinker.
• You are a living legend.
• Tribal council day is a zoo. My dilemma is I'm going to make three people very happy tonight, and I'm going to upset three people.
• I'm gonna potentially gain three jury votes and lose three jury votes at the same time.
• The closer it gets to the final three, the more I realize it's a pretty big deal.
• I believe strongly that I could beat Penner in the final three.
• I can't look at any one of these people and say I would not like to be great friends after the game is over but I'd like to win too.
• There's no description for him. He's the best human being I know.
• My son is bloodyd from here to here, his chest, everybody's like "are you okay?" and I'm like "that's my boy."
• Give me your shirt. (To his son)
• The only thing against you, the only one thing against you is you're a threat and every other possible thousand reasons are against Abi.
• She's every psychological condition all packed in one. (About Abi-Maria)
• I think you thought you were gonna here but I think you thought you were gonna be here with very different people.
• She announces with trumpets that "I'm going into the wood for a while."
• Remember my last chopper ride?
• Bigger than this game, Malcolm gave my boy something that will last me a lifetime, way longer than pizza will,and I'm getting chocked up even talking about it.
• I'm drinking pop. I haven't had pop in 30 years.
• I haven't had a soda in 30 years. And i had three or four of them. I don't even remember.
• I'm swimming with this thing with the dorsal fin that look like a shark, and it's so intimidating because you think at any second it could just turn on you and bite you, eat you.
• You'd think it would be an easy decision tonight. It's just not, because everything matters so much when you get down to the end game like this. And you have to consider every scenario if you want to come out on top.
• Abi hasn't done much that's likable at all in a game where everybody is trying to be liked by everybody, but hanging out with Abi for the next three days would definitely be worth a million dollars.
• I think you thought you were gonna here but I think you thought you were gonna be here with very different people.
• She announces with trumpets that "I'm going into the wood for a while."
• Remember my last chopper ride?
• Bigger than this game, Malcolm gave my boy something that will last me a lifetime, way longer than pizza will,and I'm getting chocked up even talking about it.
• I'm drinking pop. I haven't had pop in 30 years.
• I haven't had a soda in 30 years. And i had three or four of them. I don't even remember.
• I'm swimming with this thing with the dorsal fin that look like a shark, and it's so intimidating because you think at any second it could just turn on you and bite you, eat you.
• You'd think it would be an easy decision tonight. It's just not, because everything matters so much when you get down to the end game like this. And you have to consider every scenario if you want to come out on top.
• Abi hasn't done much that's likable at all in a game where everybody is trying to be liked by everybody, but hanging out with Abi for the next three days would definitely be worth a million dollars.
• Second or third at this stage of the game means nothing to me.
• Survivor says outwit, outplay, outlast. There's nothing in there that says out-keep your word.
• Getting rid of Abi, it's the best feeling I've had since I've been out here. It sucked life out of you having her here.
• I mean, I'm not happy for her loss. I'm just happy for our peace.
• I have to step outside the game for just a minute and look at it from an outside observer in order to truly make the decision on that.
• I think I can beat Malcolm. And I think I can tell a pretty good story at the end.
• I just have to keep my cool and figure out who I wanna sit next to in the final three, because that's the million-dollar question right there.
• We can't control jury votes but we can control where we sit.
• If I want to control the outcome of the game, I have to have immunity in my hand so I can create the final three instead of just falling into the final three.
• Being medevaced from this game, it just leaves a little hole inside.
• This win means I made it to the very, very, very end.
• What I'm most proud of is the fact they all said the same thing, Malcolm is going to win. It turns out it was not even close.
• There's a weird, instinctive, primitive side of me that says go against the best. Go against the best. Go against the best.
• I would love to take Malcolm and beat him straight up man to man, two warriors, fought to a head. He won three individual challenges. I won three individual challenges. What a great head-to-head battle that would be.
• Twenty Three seasons I watched this game. And I've always wondered if I could play this whole game strategically enough to get myself in the final three.
• I knew I could make it to the end twenty three seasons ago. When I came out here, I tried to tell myself the same thing. But thought of doubt kept creeping in because every time I got around a campfire I thought, don't fall in this sucker.
• I'm here, and it feels good to be here.

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