Top 60 Felix Baumgartner Quotes
#1. 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.
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#3. I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.
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#4. I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.
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#5. When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble,
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#7. That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound ... I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.
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#8. As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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#9. I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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#15. If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.
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#16. Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.
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#21. You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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#23. I'm not an adrenaline junkie. It's never been about thrills for me. I'm just someone who loves a challenge.
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#24. Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy.
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#25. I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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#26. I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
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#30. Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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#31. It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.
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#33. This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
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#34. I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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#35. I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.
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#37. One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off.
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#38. I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.
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#39. Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#46. I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.
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#48. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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#49. People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
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#50. If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.
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#54. I would've never dreamt that my skydive would trigger such gushing enthusiasm. I still don't really understand exactly what I've accomplished, although I always suspected it would be a truly spectacular moment.
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#55. Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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