I’d love to come to Australia. I’d love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
I’m often very relaxed when I’m on the wire.
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.
I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I’m dragging an anchor behind me.
A lot of praying helped me a lot.
If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
It’s Niagara Falls. It’s one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn’t want to walk across it?
One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.
What I’m doing is a natural wonder. If not, there’d be 150 people behind me on the wire.
Every walk that I do, there’s obstacles in the way. There’s always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.
I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that’s a process we’ll start working on. I’d say within three to five years I’ll accomplish that as well.
I feel like I’m on cloud nine right now.
I respect what I do deeply. I don’t get nervous to the point of fear.
What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.
If you think you can fall, you’re more likely to.
I’ve trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.
I am so blessed. How blessed I am to have the life that I have.
The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can’t re-enact them, you can’t recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running.