Top 50 Felix Baumgartner Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Felix Baumgartner

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2. “The only limit is the one you set yourself.”

— Felix Baumgartner

3. “I like to challenge myself.”

— Felix Baumgartner

4. “Don’t live life as a spectator.”

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

6. “I have no privacy anymore.”

— Felix Baumgartner

7. “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

8. “Never accept your limitations – because there are NO limitations.”

— Felix Baumgartner

9. “If you want to do something extraordinary, there’s always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.”

— Felix Baumgartner

10. “Learn to love what you’ve been taught to fear.”

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

14. “I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.”

— Felix Baumgartner

15. “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

16. “This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It’s not my fault. It’s just in my mind.”

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

18. “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

19. “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

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

— Felix Baumgartner

21. “I don’t like to rate myself; others can do that.”

— Felix Baumgartner

22. “The stratosphere is a hostile place.”

— Felix Baumgartner

23. “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

24. “I have a lot of fears that normal people have.”

— 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

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26. “We want to push mankind’s boundaries out a little further.”

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

28. “I’m more a competitive person.”

— Felix Baumgartner

29. “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

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

— Felix Baumgartner

31. “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.”

— Felix Baumgartner

32. “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

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

— Felix Baumgartner

34. “I had to work with a psychiatrist.”

— Felix Baumgartner

35. “They call me Fearless Felix.”

— Felix Baumgartner

36. “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

37. “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.”

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

40. “Aviation – and space travel, in particular – have always been especially captivating.”

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

43. “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

44. “I’m 100 percent sure I’m becoming a really good helicopter pilot.”

— Felix Baumgartner

45. “I’m retired from the daredevil business.”

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

47. “The only thing you want is to come back alive.”

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Felix Baumgartner

49. “If I do something, it’s always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.”

— Felix Baumgartner

50. “I’m now a member of a pretty small club.”

— Felix Baumgartner