Top 215 Climbing Quotes

Climbing for me is about being free. It’s just to move and be uninhibited and feel and tap into the connection with nature.

Glenda Bailey is a woman after my own heart who believes that climbing the career ladder can be overrated, to say the least. After all, why not just go for what you want now?

In rock climbing, people get strong enough, and then they pick goals they can do with their strengths at that moment.

There’s no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It’s experiencing the climb itself – in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue – that has to be the goal.

We grew up climbing trees, playing outdoors and cycling.

I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements – like swimming or running, things that people have been doing for a thousand years.

There were many fruit trees in our house when I was growing up and I never missed climbing any of them.

I’d say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was… trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.

I think I know now that you can’t do this sort of climbing and have a domestic side. You’re not a practicing father if you’re not there. You’re maybe a visiting father.

I’ve been a really big fan of climbing. I really got into it when I watched the show ‘Beyond the Limit’ about climbing Mount Everest.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don’t leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

I’ve been climbing my whole life, so I know a lot of the feelings, the smells; these memories are pretty distinct in my mind still.

The kids have got their iPads, but they prefer to get out climbing trees and coming out with me. That’s the kind of learning I want them to have: experiences.

Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I’m much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it’s about working together – we’re all on the rope together, and you don’t get to cut the rope if you’re not getting along with someone.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I’ve never done any vertical climbing.

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it’s part of my life.

When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.

For sure, Potrero Chico is a super nice winter vacation climbing area. It’s really convenient to fly into Monterrey, one of the nicer cities in Mex, and get a taxi to Potero. Then you can just live in the camping area and walk everywhere. It’s muy tranquilo, as they say there.

I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.

I am a vegetarian, and I sort of aspire to vegan-hood. So far I’ve noticed no difference at all in my climbing, but I feel a bit healthier overall. Though that’s only because I’m eating more fruits and vegetables. I think the whole protein thing is overhyped. Most Americans eat far more than we need.

When I wake up, I don’t worry about why the mountain is there. I just start climbing.

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That’s pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.

To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching ‘Das Boot.’

When you’re climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

I could have saved my marriage if I had chosen to. But when I was forced to take a new look, I realized, ‘Hey, it’s not what I really want – it’s a weird thing, but climbing is still at the center.’

My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast.

What I like about climbing that it’s so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

My ‘something borrowed’ was a stunning pair of vintage diamond drop earrings from my friend Afshin at Estate Diamond Jewelry in N.Y.C. My ‘something blue’ was my tanzanite right hand ring that I bought for myself in Tanzania after climbing Mt Kilimanjaro.

I’m not thinking about anything when I’m climbing, which is part of the appeal. I’m focused on executing what’s in front of me.

Arsenal was in a decline. We had to stop this and begin climbing.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries. There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if I have a particular gift, it’s a mental one – the ability to keep it together where others might freak out.

I was always being athletic, climbing trees and running after boys, just being trouble. It was always in me.

I remember climbing Mont Ventoux at the end of the day, and it was so, so hard. You have already three, four hours in your legs of cycling, and then you have to climb probably the hardest mountain on the course. And then you have to ride back to your car and pack up your stuff.

I’m really into rock climbing and hiking and stuff.

In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It’s a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.

The alpine environment is very delicate. I’ve been able to see change in the mountains in the 20 years that I’ve been climbing full-time. Glaciers have receded. The tree-line is changing. That’s very rapid to see nature changing in a 20-year period.

When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Climbing is wildly diverse, ranging from the rock-climbing wall at the local health club to the cutting edge of major Himalayan Alpine ascents.

I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy.

I want to make sure I’m climbing because there’s no back-up. No one in my family has a house, and, regardless of your background, if someone has a house, that means you can always come back home. When you don’t have that, it’s like there isn’t anywhere to stand, so you have to keep jumping.

I have different shoes for different types of climbing, six or seven different shoes that I alternate.

Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

First scenes are super-important to me. I’ll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

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?

The thing that I’ve always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

I started climbing in my late teens, but I wasn’t passionate about it back then. My first experience was being dragged up peaks by my parents; freezing cold with nothing to see.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.