Quotes By Felix Baumgartner

I like to challenge myself.

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 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.

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

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

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

I'm more a competitive person.

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'm retired from the daredevil business.

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

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 started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

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

I have no privacy anymore.

They call me Fearless Felix.

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.

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.

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.