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.
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.
If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.
I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?
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.
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.
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.
What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.
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.
I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.
