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 More Quotes by Nik Wallenda More Quotes From Nik Wallenda If you think you can fall, you're more likely to. Nik Wallenda ifs fall thinking 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 romance running wind My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do. Nik Wallenda inspiration hero grandfather The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it. Nik Wallenda ifs mind impossible I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions. Nik Wallenda distracted distraction It's actually smaller than my thumb, it's over 25 stories up and we're walking five city blocks and it's pretty amazing. Nik Wallenda lifestyle I've done a lot of practice in wet conditions. I trained in the rain. My grip is okay. Nik Wallenda lifestyle 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 stay-focused focused dark wind It's about carrying on the legacy and doing something I love and have a passion for. Nik Wallenda doing legacy passion love 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 back me wind way 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 face focus unique water 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 go myself pride way I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies. Nik Wallenda reach hope people world This is something no one in the world has ever done. Nik Wallenda ever something done world I was not scared at all. Nik Wallenda scared 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 old walk dream walking I've seen the video played over and over, and it replays in my head constantly. To be able to walk in his exact footsteps is an extremely huge honor, and I did this for him as much as I did it for my family to get some closure too. Nik Wallenda walk some family honor We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds. Nik Wallenda winds very hard train 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 walk feet walking believe
