Quotes from Felix Baumgartner

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

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

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

If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.

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.

I'm more a competitive person.

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

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

I have no privacy anymore.

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.

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

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

They call me Fearless Felix.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

Don't live life as a spectator.

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

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

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

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

I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

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.

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

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.

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.