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.

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

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.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

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.

I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.