If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.