55 Quotes by Nik Wallenda

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

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

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

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.

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

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.

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

It's about carrying on the legacy and doing something I love and have a passion for.

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.