The stratosphere is a hostile place.
I’m 100 percent sure I’m becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.
I like to challenge myself.
I have no privacy anymore.
I have a lot of fears that normal people have.
Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.
People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
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.
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren’t crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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.
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.
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.
You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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.
They call me Fearless Felix.
Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy.
I had to work with a psychiatrist.
I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.