Felix Baumgartner Quotes

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.

I like to challenge myself.

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

The only limit is the one you set yourself.

One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

They call me Fearless Felix.

When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble,

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.

I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations.

Everyone
has limits. Not everyone accepts
them.

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

I have no privacy anymore.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.

I'm more a competitive person.

Learn to love what you've been taught to fear.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

We want to push mankind's boundaries out a little further.

I'm now a member of a pretty small club.

I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy.

Don't live life as a spectator.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

The only thing you want is to come back alive.

I'm not an adrenaline junkie. It's never been about thrills for me. I'm just someone who loves a challenge.