265 Quotes About Climbing

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

We were climbing uphill from the start. We didn't have it.

We were climbing uphill all night long. We thought if we could have had a normal quarter offensively and not be in the hole down by 20 points like we were in the first quarter, then we'd be OK.

I feel like I've worked hard but I've also been very fortunate. I have skipped a couple of steps in terms of climbing the ladder.

You've been climbing the ladder for 30 years, trying to get a great racehorse.

O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm climbing these mountains. The fear. The anticipation before that. Getting to the top and the joy of standing on top, and then the adrenaline on going down, and then the kind of overwhelming emotions that I get at the bottom. That whole process is really addicting, and makes me feel alive.

It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.