Quotes by Nik Wallenda

About Nik Wallenda:

Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author. He is known for his high-wire performances without a safety net. He holds nine Guinness World Records for various acrobatic feats, but is best known as the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
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I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.

Nik Wallenda

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.

Nik Wallenda

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

Nik Wallenda

This is something no one in the world has ever done.

Nik Wallenda

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.

Nik Wallenda

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

I was not scared at all.

Nik Wallenda

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.

Nik Wallenda

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

Nik Wallenda

One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.

Nik Wallenda

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

Nik Wallenda

To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this.

Nik Wallenda

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

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

Nik Wallenda

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

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.

Nik Wallenda

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

Nik Wallenda

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.

Nik Wallenda

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

Nik Wallenda

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

Nik Wallenda

Author Bio

  • NameNik Wallenda
  • DescriptionAmerican acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, and high wire artist
  • AliasesThe King of the Wire
  • BornJanuary 24, 1979
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCircus Performer