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Rock Climber Inspirational Quotes (214)

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Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.
Catherine Destivelle
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Humans are able to give very good feedback. You can't tell with an animal what they feel.
Hugh Herr
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I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
Alain Robert
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We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
Yvon Chouinard
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There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.
Ron Kauk
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For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!
Lynn Hill
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The revolution starts at the bottom.
Yvon Chouinard
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The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all.
Chris Sharma
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The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.
Dean Potter
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Climbing is an artistic, creative thing it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.
Chris Sharma
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Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.
Alain Robert
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Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.
Dean Potter
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The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.
Yvon Chouinard
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When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.
Galen Rowell
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With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.
Chris Sharma
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.
Alain Robert
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Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.
Dean Potter
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We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world as we try to understand the space between.
Dean Potter
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Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.
Yvon Chouinard
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Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.
Chris Sharma
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You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!
Don Whillans
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I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But it was a route worth bolting for, and after a time I began to take an almost perverse joy in it, or at least in doing a good job.
Royal Robbins
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