Quotes About Challenge

I know I'm not a cutting-edge free climber. Free soloing, I'm comfortable to 5.10-plus or 5.11a. But if I was a grade higher I could do some amazing things.

We are apes - we should be climbing.

Climbing is what I do.

I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.

I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

I grew up rock climbing.

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

When you're climbing something as challenging as Meru, it's all about efficiency. Even a decision as small as what to eat for dinner would expend energy you need for making other, more dramatic decisions.

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

For me, fighting is just so fun; I love it. It's just what I enjoy doing, and for me to go out there and go wake boarding and go rock climbing and then turn around and go fight, how awesome is that?

I'm always climbing.

I was born into a climbing family.

Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I really expected not to come back alive.

Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing.

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

I'm used to running against the clock.

I have a very close relationship with God. I even fight with Him at times.

We're only human, and fear can eat away at you the closer you get to a big fight.

I'm down to fight anybody that's going to move me up and help my career and get me closer to that title shot.

Being a manager is the closest buzz I'll ever get to playing. For every low, you get a high, and that becomes an addiction and a feeling you are always chasing.

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

You never know when you're going to have to fight or take your clothes off.

You can't get in the top four if you can't beat the clubs who are in the top four.

You know when you arrive at one of the best clubs in the world it won't be easy to play.