Nik Wallenda

“I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.”