I got a lot of inspiration and encouragement from my friend and ultra-runner Scott Jurek. — Dean Potter Encouragement Copy Share Image
My dad was in the army for most of my youth. He was very regimented and I learned to train from him. — Dean Potter Army Copy Share Image
I consider myself a rock climber but the definition of rock climbing as has changed. — Dean Potter Changed Copy Share Image
I think my dad's dream really was just to have a good family, treat them well, to keep them together, and he… — Dean Potter Dad Copy Share Image
I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a… — Dean Potter Dream Copy Share Image
Part of me says it's kind of crazy to think you can fly your human body. Another part of me thinks all… — Dean Potter Body Copy Share Image
It's going to hurt if I fall. I don't want to deal with that, I want to prove that it can be… — Dean Potter Hurt Copy Share Image
I know it's kind of a strange thing I'm talking about, but another part of me truly believes I can fly, like… — Dean Potter Fly Copy Share Image
A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward… — Dean Potter Body Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make… — Dean Potter Art Copy Share Image
We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world… — Dean Potter Free thinking Copy Share Image
I just love any place that I can sit in the sun and feel the warmth of the sun's rays, and feel… — Dean Potter Comparison Copy Share Image
I hydrate obsessively, limit processed foods, and make a conscious attempt to eat and drink pure things, organic foods. I've noticed that… — Dean Potter Drink Copy Share Image
'The Man Who Can Fly' captures my quest for true human flight. This pursuit of the unknown and following dreams that may… — Dean Potter Adventure Copy Share Image
I spend more time with Whisper than I do with anybody else. I chose her when she was three or four days… — Dean Potter Animal Copy Share Image
Often in normal life I'm just constricted to what I see, maybe, and hear. But when I climb and when I'm out… — Dean Potter Awareness Copy Share Image
My mom was a yoga teacher back in the 1960s, so I observed a lot of the practice. It's movement of the… — Dean Potter Awareness Copy Share Image
In most every other country, 'body flying' more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art.… — Dean Potter Art Copy Share Image
My fear is with the onset of mainstream interest in extreme sports that diversity will be subdued and eventually snubbed out within… — Dean Potter Community Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, my first memory was a flying dream. In my dream, I flew - and I also… — Dean Potter Always Copy Share Image
If I have a combination of calm and fear, I access mental states way beyond normal consciousness. That's why I choose to… — Dean Potter Calm Copy Share Image
Wing-suit flying can be safe if you are highly practiced and skilled and follow the fundamental rules of questioning yourself and waiting… — Dean Potter Right Copy Share Image
I had a unique style, I didn't care about how things were done in the past, and I just did what felt… — Dean Potter Done Copy Share Image
It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a… — Dean Potter Being free Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge… — Dean Potter Caves Copy Share Image
For two summers, I lived up on the Eiger for close to 40 days. It was in a tent under this overhang… — Dean Potter Blue Copy Share Image
The deaths of such skilled fliers like my very good friend Sean Leary make me see that if there's ever a question… — Dean Potter Better Copy Share Image
When there's a death consequence, when you are doing things that if you mess up you die, I like the way it… — Dean Potter Death Copy Share Image
Doing things with serious consequences, whether it's death or seriously mangling myself, puts me in a hyper-aware state, and has become somewhat… — Dean Potter Addiction Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1970s. It was a super open-minded time. I was taught through my parents and TV that everything… — Dean Potter Comic Copy Share Image
When I go out there untethered, the feelings that I slip I die totally overwhelms me. I am after the feeling of… — Dean Potter Control Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling for it, and I think us as humans perceive all of that - the pressure change and… — Dean Potter Change Copy Share Image
With the highlining I'm not blocking out the fear, I'm feeling the fear and absorbing everything that's around me, trying to calm… — Dean Potter Calm Copy Share Image
With my height in high school, I was really thinking basketball. But I guess I wasn't that good, because my sophomore year… — Dean Potter Basketball Copy Share Image
More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and… — Dean Potter Different Copy Share Image
We call the rangers 'the tool.' They're just kind of a tool of the government machine. They don't use their own mind. — Dean Potter Government Copy Share Image
I can calm myself by an intense will, and also by the simple ability to focus in the most dangerous situation on… — Dean Potter Calm Copy Share Image
Yosemite really brings out my creativity. It's such a powerful place, there's some sort of amazing energy going on that fuels me. — Dean Potter Amazing Copy Share Image
Climbing for me is about being free. It's just to move and be uninhibited and feel and tap into the connection with… — Dean Potter Being Copy Share Image
The knowledge that in a split second that I could be dead almost overwhelms me. But it is through constant exposure to… — Dean Potter Alive Copy Share Image
