Ueli Gegenschatz Quotes

BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.

I've never been able to sky-dive, and I've always wanted to. I've probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won't let me do it.

I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff.

But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

Skydiving - I love to do that.

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

I ski, I snowboard, I've started to get into skydiving a little bit. I'm a little bit of a thrill-seeker.

I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.

Skydiving is a rush. Doing it naked could be more of a rush, but it's nothing I would ever consider.

Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

I haven't gone sky diving yet and I want to do that, real bad. I love adrenaline and going fast.

Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.

On a beautiful clear Sunday morning, myself and James Nesbitt jumped out of a plane together at 18,000 feet.

Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.

I go skydiving often. At least twice a year.

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.

I've done the Stratosphere stuff in Vegas, but I haven't skydived or anything like that.

I love doing stuff in a harness. It's surprising what you can actually do. I'm reasonably coordinated, so I can do flips and the flipping kicks.

I just thought it would be a fun rush of adrenaline to jump out of a plane three times.

I would've never dreamt that my skydive would trigger such gushing enthusiasm. I still don't really understand exactly what I've accomplished, although I always suspected it would be a truly spectacular moment.

I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.