Best 43 quotes of Felix Baumgartner on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

Don't live life as a spectator.

Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm not an adrenaline junkie. It's never been about thrills for me. I'm just someone who loves a challenge.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

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.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.

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.

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

I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

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.

Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations.

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

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

One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off.

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

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach. My jump gave them an opportunity to come along for the ride. They could watch live on their screens how someone rises all the way up into the stratosphere.

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

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.

They call me Fearless Felix.

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

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.

We want to push mankind's boundaries out a little further.

When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive

When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble.

Don’t live life as a spectator. Always examine life: Espouse new ideas, long for new things, constantly discovering new interests, escaping from boring routines. Engage life with enthusiasm; grasping life aggressively and squeezing from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy. The key to unleashing life’s potential is attitude. The person who approaches life with a child-like wonder is best prepared to defy the limitations of time, is more “alive,” more of a participant in life than the person who remains a spectator.