Quotes from Felix Baumgartner

Learn to love what you've been taught to fear.

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.

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

I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

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

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

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

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.

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

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

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

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

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

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

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.