Nik Wallenda quotes
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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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“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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“I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.”
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“I respect what I do deeply. I don't get nervous to the point of fear.”
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“I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.”
-- Nik WallendaSource : "Wallenda exuberant after wire walk across Falls". www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.
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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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“I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.”
-- Nik WallendaSource : "Daredevil completes walk across Niagara Falls". www.cnn.com. June 16, 2012.
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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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“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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“One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.”
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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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“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.”
-- Nik WallendaSource : "Niagara Falls Tightrope Walker Garners U.S. Support". www.foxnews.com. August 03, 2011.
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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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“I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.”
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“I am so blessed. How blessed I am to have the life that I have.”
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“I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.”
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“You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire,”
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“What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.”
-- Nik WallendaSource : "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2014.
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“If you think you can fall, you're more likely to.”
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“I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.”
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“The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.”
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“My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.”
-- Nik WallendaSource : "Nik Wallenda finishes high-wire act that killed great-grandfather" by Kelly Daniel, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2011.
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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.”
-- Nik WallendaSource : "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.
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