Nik Wallenda quotes:
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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.
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My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.
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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.
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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.
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I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
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What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.
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It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?
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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.
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I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.
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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.
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One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.
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I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.
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I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.
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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.
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It's about carrying on the legacy and doing something I love and have a passion for.
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I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
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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.
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What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.
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I am so blessed. How blessed I am to have the life that I have.
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If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
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I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
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I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.
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A lot of praying helped me a lot.
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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.
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I respect what I do deeply. I don't get nervous to the point of fear.
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If you think you can fall, you're more likely to.
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I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.
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I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.
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The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.
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You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire,