114 Quotes by Dean Potter

The attractive thing about rock climbing: There are no rules.

Free soloing is just the most natural way man can climb. It's just using your hands and feet without any use of protection or rope to ascend.

We call the rangers 'the tool.' They're just kind of a tool of the government machine. They don't use their own mind.

My dad was in the army for most of my youth. He was very regimented and I learned to train from him.

Doing things with serious consequences, whether it's death or seriously mangling myself, puts me in a hyper-aware state, and has become somewhat of an addiction for me.

I think my dad's dream really was just to have a good family, treat them well, to keep them together, and he did everything in his power and it just fell apart on him.

Any time I'm having difficulty, I focus on the breath, on relaxed breathing.

I can calm myself by an intense will, and also by the simple ability to focus in the most dangerous situation on breath and nothing else.

With everything that I'm doing I'm trying to become more free.