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Felix Baumgartner [1969-0] Austrian

Rank: 101
Athlete, Daredevil

Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He is best known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012.

Cool, Freedom, Space, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.		101
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.	Cool	102
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.	Space, Travel	103
I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.	Freedom	104
I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.		105
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.		106
Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.		107
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.		108
People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.		109
They call me Fearless Felix.		110
This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.		111
I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.		112
I'm retired from the daredevil business.		113
I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.		114
I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.		115
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.		116
I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.		117
I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.		118
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.		119
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.		120
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.		121
To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.		122
I like to challenge myself.		123
Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.		124
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.		125
I have a lot of fears that normal people have.		126
I have no privacy anymore.		201
I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.		202
The stratosphere is a hostile place.		203
I'm now a member of a pretty small club.		204
I had to work with a psychiatrist.		205
If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.		206
I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.		207
People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.		208
You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.		209
Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.		210
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.		211
I'm more a competitive person.		212

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