Ueli Quotes & Sayings

It's the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard - but when you move, you do not suffer. That's the feeling I am looking for. — Ueli Steck

No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed. — Henepola Gunaratana

You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life. — Ueli Steck

It is war's prize to take all vantages;
And ten to one is no impeach of valor. — William Shakespeare

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it. — James Baldwin

You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons ... and they have to just move. — Ueli Steck

BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references. — Ueli Gegenschatz

what stranger can compete with a video that documents the budding friendship of two baby hippopotamuses? No one, that's who. — Aziz Ansari

When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your lungs. When I saw this time I was like, 'Ah, that's not possible.' Yeah ... that was a good moment. — Ueli Steck

My life is like the summer rose
That opens to the morning sky,
But ere the shades of evening close
Is scattered on the ground - to die. — Richard Henry Wilde

I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving. — Ueli Gegenschatz

Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.' — Ueli Gegenschatz

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live. — Yasmina Khadra

From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving. — Ueli Gegenschatz

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed. — Christopher Hitchens