Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.
Aaron Neville
Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
Aaron Patzer
First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
Aaron Sorkin
I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
Abby Wambach
I drove down to Leh with my brother and from there, we had a two-day trek till the base camp of Stok Kangri. After a day's layover to acclimatize ourselves and a partial attempt to climb the peak, we attempted the final climb a day later.
Abhinav Shukla
Rubina hasn't fully explored her adventurous side yet. The main reason I fell in love with her was because she is super healthy and fit. She proved that she is a good climber when I took her along to climb Mt. Kalsubai.
At times, my insecurities were real. How am I going to get back into the team? I felt like I was climbing a ladder that was never-ending at times.
Adam Lallana
I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.
Adam Ondra
I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.
It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.
I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.
Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.
I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.
Even though Czech food is traditionally a bit heavy, especially for a climber, I can't resist some dishes: sveckova, for example, is beef in a creamy sauce with celery and dumplings. It's probably fortunate that I don't know how to cook it myself.
What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who's best, but climbing harder and harder routes makes it more fun.
The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.
My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.
I was born into a climbing family.
If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.
I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you don't need good technique. But jugging 400 meters, that's a big deal.
I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.
Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades.
Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.
I finished my degree so I'm definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.
What I like about climbing that it's so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.
I didn't want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me it was really important to try to climb it from the ground up at first.
Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.
I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.
I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.
I've never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.
The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.
Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.
The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.
There are way more powerful climbers compared to me but I think I can really take advantage of all my power due to my technique.
Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part of the landscape, part of the rock.
I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.
I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements - like swimming or running, things that people have been doing for a thousand years.
I do not climb really dangerous stuff.
Bouldering on real rock, which I'm more used to climbing on, is a lot more static and requires mostly finger power, whereas competition-style boulder problems are about coordination.
I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.
While the developed world has shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and then to services, the number of jobs has always climbed.
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.
Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.
When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
