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

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.

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 can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

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.

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.