Nik Wallenda Quotes

• 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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  Legacy, Bars, Weight

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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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  Family, Giving Up, Years

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• I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

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  Distraction, Distracted

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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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  World, Next, Hurdle

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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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  Negative, Way, Obstacles

  "Niagara Falls Tightrope Walker Garners U.S. Support". www.foxnews.com. August 03, 2011.

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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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  People, Trying, Want

  "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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  Steel, Moisture, Pieces

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

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  Grandfather, Pay, Tribute

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

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  Fall, Thinking, Ifs

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• A lot of praying helped me a lot.

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  Praying

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

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  Mind, Impossible, Ifs

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2017

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• I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.

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  Wire, Relaxed

  "Nik Wallenda Niagara Falls Walk: Tightrope-Walker Completes First-Ever Feat" by Neale Gulley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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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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  Running, Wind, Romance

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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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  Years, Three, World

  "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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

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  Nervous

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

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  Clouds, Nine, Feels

  "Wallenda exuberant after wire walk across Falls". www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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

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  Mother, Challenges, Mother Nature

  Twitter post from Feb 25, 2017

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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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  Beautiful, Fall, Natural Wonders

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

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  Blessed

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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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  People, Wire, Natural Wonders

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

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  Long, Wire

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• What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Night, Cities

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2014.

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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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  Anchors, Weight, Harness

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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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  Inspiration, Hero, Grandfather

  "Nik Wallenda finishes high-wire act that killed great-grandfather" by Kelly Daniel, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2011.

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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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  Australia, House, Opera

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