Quotes About Challenge

I don't want to be guy that almost climbed Dawn Wall.

Anytime you play basketball and your backs are to the wall, you have to come out and play aggressive.

I felt when I was hitting guys or going for a takedown at 185, sometimes it was like hitting a wall.

Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.

It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality.

When we come up upon a wall, it matters. We have to plan around it. It's a mitigating factor if you're trying to enter or cross from point A to point B.

I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas.

My wife always says that I function better up on a big wall than I do anywhere else in life.

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.

I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.

I love singing, so I want to see how far I can take it. I love the challenge, and I won't be happy until I have a wall full of gold discs and seven huge world tours under my belt.

When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.

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.

I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.

I was a kiddie pool attendant, and I was a white rapper. That's not going to get you a job on Wall Street.

I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

There's only a handful of chicks in the world who can climb big walls on my level.

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.