Words matter. These are the best Adam Ondra Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s really difficult to climb effortlessly.
I do not climb really dangerous stuff.
I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they’re more focused on sport climbing.
If I’m climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, ‘Hmm, this is weird.’ Like a fish without water.
I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.
I think it wouldn’t be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.
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.
I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.
Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I’m not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.
When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.
The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.
For the Olympics, I’m mostly training in the gym, so I’m running laps on the standard speed wall.
I think it’s possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.
I was born into a climbing family.
I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.
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.
I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you don’t need good technique. But jugging 400 meters, that’s a big deal.
I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn’t have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.
Climbing is great, and I don’t think I’ll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.
Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.
I’ve never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.
What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who’s best, but climbing harder and harder routes makes it more fun.
Czech people are quite hard to get to know, in my opinion.
I didn’t want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me it was really important to try to climb it from the ground up at first.
My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.
Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades.
The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.
I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.
I finished my degree so I’m definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.
The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.
I don’t really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.
Even though Czech food is traditionally a bit heavy, especially for a climber, I can’t resist some dishes: sveckova, for example, is beef in a creamy sauce with celery and dumplings. It’s probably fortunate that I don’t know how to cook it myself.
Normally, it’s more efficient to climb fast.
