Nik Wallenda famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Bars #Weight #Legacy
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.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Family #Giving Up #Years
I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Next #World #Hurdle
I respect what I do deeply. I don't get nervous to the point of fear.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Nervous
I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Clouds #Nine #Cloud Nine
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.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Anchors #Weight #Harness
I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
-- Nik Wallenda

#People #Trying #Want
If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Pieces #Sticks #Steel
It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?
-- Nik Wallenda

#Beautiful #Fall #World
One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Mother #Challenges #Mother Nature
What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.
-- Nik Wallenda

#People #Wire #Wonder
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 Wallenda

#Way #Negative #Obstacles
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.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Running #Wind #Romance
I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Australia #House #Opera
A lot of praying helped me a lot.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Praying
I am so blessed. How blessed I am to have the life that I have.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Blessed
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Grandfather #Pay #Tribute
You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire,
-- Nik Wallenda

#Long #Wire
What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Beautiful #Night #Cities
If you think you can fall, you're more likely to.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Fall #Thinking
I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Distraction #Distracted
The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.
-- Nik Wallenda

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

#Inspiration #Hero #Grandfather
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 Wallenda

#Years #Three #World

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