Nik Wallenda Quotes

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

I respect what I do deeply. I don't get nervous to the point of fear.

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.

To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

I am so blessed. How blessed I am to have the life that I have.

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and hit me from the front, and hit me from the back.

I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

This is something no one in the world has ever done.

If you think you can fall, you're more likely to.

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.

I was not scared at all.

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.

You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire,

We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running.

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.