45 Quotes by Tommy Caldwell

There are specific things in our world that are incredibly dangerous. Wingsuit BASE jumping is the very, very top of that. Big alpine climbing objectives are maybe right below that. I've probably had 20 friends die - people who were pretty close to me. I would say about 18 of them were because of snow.

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

I tend to walk through life sort of looking through a pair of binoculars, and I focus on certain things and push out the rest.

I crave time in Yosemite like I crave food and water.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

My earliest memory is being in a snow hole, aged two-and-a-half, with my dad somewhere up a mountain in a blizzard. I don't know what my dad saw in me - I was a geeky kid - but he had that philosophy: prepare the kid for the road, not the road for the kid.

One of the nice things about indoor training is you can make holds that are better on your skin, so you can train more before your fingers wear out. You can get stronger faster climbing inside.

I feel very lucky to be able to call my hobby my job, yet it doesn't feel like one.

I feel this heavy weight to be a good ambassador for the sport.