Felix Baumgartner
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.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Opportunity
I'm not an adrenaline junkie. It's never been about thrills for me. I'm just someone who loves a challenge.Collection: Challenges
The only thing you want is to come back alive.Collection: Alive
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.Collection: Challenges
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 aliveCollection: Humble
If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.Collection: Might
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.Collection: Names
I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.Collection: Inspire
I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Would Be
I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.Collection: Home
We want to push mankind's boundaries out a little further.Collection: Want