Quotes About Challenge

This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.

Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports.

Mountaineering is more about mental strength to conquer rather than physical.

Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who anyone is or what they do.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Cyclists are insane. You're going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There's this circus around them. They're so tough. When they have a day off, they go out and cycle 100 miles.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

The mountains are a demanding, cold place, and they don't allow for mistakes.

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

I climb mountains.

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.

I am Dusty's son, but I learned the hard way I was never going to be 'The American Dream.' That was difficult for me, and I made some molehills into mountains.

As I get more experienced, I love the idea of going into big mountains and doing big climbs. But the problem is, it's getting more dangerous, especially alpine climbing.

There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.

I always thought if I died in the mountains, it would put an asterisk on my climbs.

There's always mountains to climb and I'm always open for another challenge.

Anything can happen at anytime on the mountains.

When you take someone's best shot in the mouth, there's nothing more they can give you.

It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.

My heart was always in my mouth when I started on a new routine.

I think the world needs this - somebody out there to question everything, and put their money where their mouth is.