Baumgartner Quotes & Sayings

I'm more a competitive person. — Felix Baumgartner

The stratosphere is a hostile place. — Felix Baumgartner

Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations. — Felix Baumgartner

I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger. — Michael Baumgartner

That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound ... I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it. — Felix Baumgartner

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

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

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot. — Felix Baumgartner

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

We want to push mankind's boundaries out a little further. — Felix Baumgartner

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later. — Michael Baumgartner

One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off. — Felix Baumgartner

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom. — Felix Baumgartner

Every individual should have both the right to join a union and the right to not join a union should they so choose. It's about basic human freedom. — Michael Baumgartner

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

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. — Felix Baumgartner

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot. — Felix Baumgartner

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things. — Brian Baumgartner

The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough ... No, I do not support the Dream Act. — Michael Baumgartner

I'm retired from the daredevil business. — Felix Baumgartner

...People stop, stare. No one stop and stare if one of your own beggars drop dead in street. No just step over him like he is a stone, or a dog turd and go away quickly. But when they see a white man with golden hair lying on the street, everyone stop, everyone cry, "Hai - hai, - poor boy, call doctor, call ambulance. What has happen, Farrokh-bhai?"..."

- Farrokh said to Baumgartner when he wanted to get rid of the reluctant, overly drugged homeless foreigner out of his restaurant. (Page 167) — Anita Desai

For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job. — Brian Baumgartner

Who's Baumgartner?" I asked.
President of the 155." At my blank stare, Catcher clarified, "My former union, Local 155 of the Union of Amalgamated Sorcerers and Spellcasters."
I nearly choked on chicken, and when I was done with the coughing fit, asked, "The acronym for the Order of sorcerers is 'U-ASS'?"
A, seriously appropriate," Mallory commented, giving Catcher a sideways grin. "B, explains why they call it 'the Order. — Chloe Neill

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event. — Felix Baumgartner

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

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

I had to work with a psychiatrist. — Felix Baumgartner

Cantwell is so extreme that she doesn't see anything wrong with 11-year-old girls getting Plan B without a prescription. She is more liberal than Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and more liberal than President Obama. That is pretty extreme - a lot farther to the Left than most Washingtonians are comfortable with. — Michael Baumgartner

Automotive sales is changing. What skills are required at the front line today and how do you develop them? According to our data, we're getting fewer visits to dealers but conversion rates are going up and up. Customers now visit a dealer simply to see the car in the flesh and then to buy it, so they've already more or less decided what to buy from all the information available online. For us, it's important to ensure that in our digital channels we can still provoke the same feelings, the sensations and the comfort with the brand that we used to always do in the dealerships. The — Thomas Baumgartner

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. — Felix Baumgartner

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro. — Felix Baumgartner

I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same. — Felix Baumgartner

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. — Felix Baumgartner

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. — Felix Baumgartner

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

Don't live life as a spectator. Always examine life: Espouse new ideas, long for
new things, constantly discovering new interests, escaping from boring
routines. Engage life with enthusiasm; grasping life aggressively and squeezing
from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy. The key to unleashing life's potential is attitude. The person who approaches
life with a child-like wonder is best prepared to defy the limitations of time, is
more "alive," more of a participant in life than the person who remains a
spectator. — Felix Baumgartner

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

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver. — Felix Baumgartner

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going. — Brian Baumgartner

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. — Felix Baumgartner

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. — Brian Baumgartner

I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy. — Brian Baumgartner

I like to challenge myself. — Felix Baumgartner

It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet. — Brian Baumgartner

It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground. — Felix Baumgartner

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

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

They call me Fearless Felix. — Felix Baumgartner

I have no privacy anymore. — Felix Baumgartner

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. — Felix Baumgartner

I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now. — Felix Baumgartner

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it. — Michael Baumgartner

I come from straight theater. — Brian Baumgartner

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

I'm now a member of a pretty small club. — Felix Baumgartner

The only limit is the one you set yourself. — Felix Baumgartner

I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes. — Brian Baumgartner

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

If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk. — Felix Baumgartner

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating. — Felix Baumgartner

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

Don't live life as a spectator. — Felix Baumgartner

I am still a Catholic. I still believe life begins at conception. That is consistent with my Catholic beliefs. And I believe we must protect life. Whenever abortion comes up, we get questioned about the exceptions, but no one ever questions the extreme positions on the other side: late-term abortions, no on parental notification. — Michael Baumgartner

Learn to love what you've been taught to fear. — Felix Baumgartner

Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy. — Felix Baumgartner

For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do more stuff in that. But ultimately, what I consider myself to be is an actor, and the more variety I can play will continue to round me out. — Brian Baumgartner

Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege. — Michael Baumgartner

The only thing you want is to come back alive. — Felix Baumgartner

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. — Felix Baumgartner

I have a lot of fears that normal people have. — Felix Baumgartner

My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it. — Michael Baumgartner

We're clothing accumulators with anxiety, compulsive shoppers struggling with addiction, or frumpy dressers who suffer from depression. Our — Jennifer Baumgartner

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

If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God. — Felix Baumgartner

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

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

When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble, — Felix Baumgartner

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

Everyone
has limits. Not everyone accepts
them. — Felix Baumgartner

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

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. — Felix Baumgartner

I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. — Felix Baumgartner