Top 77 Baumgartner Quotes
#1. Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.
Felix Baumgartner
#3. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner
#4. Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
Brian Baumgartner
#5. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#8. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#9. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#10. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#12. Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
Felix Baumgartner
#13. I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.
Felix Baumgartner
#14. One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off.
Felix Baumgartner
#15. Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.
Michael Baumgartner
#17. I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.
Felix Baumgartner
#18. I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
Felix Baumgartner
#19. The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.
Brian Baumgartner
#20. This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
Felix Baumgartner
#21. Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
Felix Baumgartner
#23. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#24. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#25. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#28. I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.
Brian Baumgartner
#29. The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough ... No, I do not support the Dream Act.
Michael Baumgartner
#30. For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do more stuff in that. But ultimately, what I consider myself to be is an actor, and the more variety I can play will continue to round me out.
Brian Baumgartner
#31. I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
Brian Baumgartner
#32. A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
Michael Baumgartner
#33. Every individual should have both the right to join a union and the right to not join a union should they so choose. It's about basic human freedom.
Michael Baumgartner
#34. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#38. If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.
Felix Baumgartner
#39. People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
Felix Baumgartner
#40. As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner
#41. It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.
Brian Baumgartner
#43. My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.
Michael Baumgartner
#44. For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.
Brian Baumgartner
#49. I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
Felix Baumgartner
#50. If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.
Felix Baumgartner
#51. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#53. When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble,
Felix Baumgartner
#54. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#55. I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.
Felix Baumgartner
#56. I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.
Michael Baumgartner
#58. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#59. I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.
Brian Baumgartner
#61. It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.
Felix Baumgartner
#62. Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
Felix Baumgartner
#63. I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
Felix Baumgartner
#64. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#66. I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
Felix Baumgartner
#67. I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
Felix Baumgartner
#68. Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy.
Felix Baumgartner
#69. When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.
Michael Baumgartner
#70. I'm not an adrenaline junkie. It's never been about thrills for me. I'm just someone who loves a challenge.
Felix Baumgartner
#72. You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
Felix Baumgartner
#74. 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.
Felix Baumgartner
#75. We're clothing accumulators with anxiety, compulsive shoppers struggling with addiction, or frumpy dressers who suffer from depression. Our
Jennifer Baumgartner
#77. Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations.
Felix Baumgartner
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