13 Quotes by Joe Simpson

Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.

We are going to push 'SNL' back because we are doing 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' for one hour,

We went back and forth and we could never get the details worked out. When it became obvious that it was not just a state dinner, it was more of a fundraising event, that is the wrong purpose of why we are here.

We went back and forth and we could never get the details worked out.

It's not surprising. But it's going to be weird not working all of those games.

He was still grinning, and his confidence was infectious. Who said one man can’t rescue another, I thought. We had changed from climbing to rescue, and the partnership had worked just as effectively. We hadn’t dwelt on the accident. There had been an element of uncertainty at first, but as soon as we had started to act positively everything had come together.

If you succeed with one dream... it’s not long before you’re conjuring up another, slightly harder, a bit more ambitious, a bit more dangerous.

There is something about mountains that moves the soul. They arouse a powerful sense of spiritual awareness and a notion of our own transient and fragile mortality and our insignificant place in the universe. They have about them an ethereal, evocative addiction that I find impossible to resist. They are an infuriating and fascinating contradiction. Climbing rarely makes sense but nearly always feels right.

Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?