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

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

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

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

They call me Fearless Felix.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

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.

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

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

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

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.