My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do. – 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
I’m one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things. – 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
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
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
I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies. – 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
