Quotes By Felix Baumgartner

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

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.

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

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

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

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

I have no privacy anymore.

They call me Fearless Felix.

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

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

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

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

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

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.

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

Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

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

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

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

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

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

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

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.

I like to challenge myself.

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

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

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

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

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