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Skydiver Inspirational Quotes (49)

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I like to challenge myself.
Felix Baumgartner
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The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.
Dean Potter
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It's kind of strange to be a free soloist when you know so much about flying, because I'm playing two opposite games, or practicing two polar opposite arts. One is the art of not falling. The other one is flying. With both those things spinning in my mind, there's a lot to process and it's pretty mind-boggling.
Dean Potter
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People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
Felix Baumgartner
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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.
Felix Baumgartner
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I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
Felix Baumgartner
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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.
Felix Baumgartner
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
Felix Baumgartner
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I just love any place that I can sit in the sun and feel the warmth of the sun's rays, and feel the connection to the planet, really tapping into how small I am and really how insignificant I am in comparison to the universe.
Dean Potter
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Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.
Dean Potter
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I don't like to rate myself others can do that.
Felix Baumgartner
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It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.
Dean Potter
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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.
Felix Baumgartner
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
Felix Baumgartner
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner
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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.
Felix Baumgartner
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
Felix Baumgartner
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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.
Felix Baumgartner
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I'm not an adrenaline junkie. It's never been about thrills for me. I'm just someone who loves a challenge.
Felix Baumgartner
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Learn to love what you've been taught to fear.
Felix Baumgartner
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The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.
Dean Potter
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I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.
Felix Baumgartner
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Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.
Dean Potter
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Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.
Dean Potter
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