Quotes By Felix Baumgartner

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.

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

I like to challenge myself.

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.

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

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

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.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

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

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

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

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

I'm more a competitive person.

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

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

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

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'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.