Ueli Gegenschatz Quotes

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.

Skydiving - I love to do that.

I go skydiving often. At least twice a year.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

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.

From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

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

I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

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?

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 base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

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

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 was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

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.

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

I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

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

I've always wanted to skydive.