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Chris Sharma, born on April 23, 1981, is a world-renowned rock climber from Spain. He is highly regarded in the climbing community for his exceptional technical skills and courage, particularly in the realm of sport climbing. Sharma has achieved numerous accomplishments in climbing, including breaking world records and winning multiple international climbing competitions.

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“Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be an ambassador for the sport and raise the profile. I try to take advantage of any opportunity to share climbing with the world.”

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“One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.”

Winning Sports Loses Independent Climbing Personal Experiences Win Or Lose

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“With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.”

Beautiful Practice Rocks Planets Climbs Climbing Beautiful Places

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“Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.”

Body Strong Sports Rocks Fit Fingers Climbing Efficient Toes Elegant

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“Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold on. Those are the climbs that force us to become better athletes and grow as climbers.”

Want Running Able Force Grows Process Yoga Athlete Spots Climbs Climbing Climbers

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“Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.”

World Process Enjoy Goal Creative Seeing Balance Setting Settings Artistic Hanging Out Climbing Ambitious Spontaneous Setting Goals Seeing The World

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“In climbing, a fundamental thing is to want to do something you've never done before. That's the beauty of climbing, whether you're a girl or boy, seasoned veteran or beginner. You're not sure you'll be able to do this, but you try, and discovering you are capable is an amazing experience and an amazing feeling.”

Want Trying Done Feelings Able Girl Boys Capable Fundamentals Not Sure Climbing Discovering Veteran Beginners Amazing Experiences

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“I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself.”

I Can Real Self Reason Interest Powerful Ego Reason Why Climbing Clutch Real Self

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“For me now, I feel that climbing is a part of who I am. It's my way of life. It's my way of expressing myself. My way of being in the world. In the past, I questioned it a lot. Now it's obvious. This is who I am. This is what I do.”

World Way Feels Past Obvious Who I Am My Way Climbing

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“That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.”

Way Sports Creative Lifestyle Climbing Be Creative Connecting

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“I had a bad knee injury when I was about seventeen. I wasn't able to climb for about six months. It was kind of like a transformative time for me, because it was really hard for me not to be able to climb. It forced me to appreciate things without just climbing.”

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“I really learned to approach climbing not just with a pure athletic mentality, but also to appreciate all these beautiful places we get to go to.”

Beautiful Pure Approach Appreciate Climbing Mentality Athletic Beautiful Places

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“In particular, with climbing, we're climbing on these surfaces that Mother Nature has created. We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's almost as if they were created for climbing.”

Ifs Mother Perfect Pieces Rocks Particular Surface Climbing Formation Mother Nature

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“Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally intertwined.”

Different Body Movement Position Unique Appreciation Climbs Climbing Intertwined

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“I have done a fair bit of meditation practice, but I think through climbing it's definitely an easier way for me to tap into that mental state of being present and in the moment, very in tune with your body. But not in an intellectual way. Just really responding to the moment, where you don't have time to think.”

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“I love finding something. For me it's not just about the athletic challenge, it's about finding new things. When I'm not doing that in climbing, it manifests itself in other ways. There's the athletic side of it, but it is very much an artistic thing.”

Way Sides Challenges Findings Artistic Climbing New Things Athletic

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“Climbing is this lifestyle activity that really works every muscle in your body.”

Body Activity Your Body Lifestyle Muscles Climbing

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“I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I feel like that's worked up until now.”

Feels Years Twenties Stronger Inspired Motivated Climbing

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“I'm going to be climbing for my whole life.”

Whole Whole Life Climbing

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“The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all.”

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“Climbing is so fun and such a good experience, that I think it's important not to take it too seriously. It's not the end of the world - or the entire world either.”

Thinking World Important Ends Fun Climbing End Of The World Good Experiences

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“We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's almost as if they were created for climbing. You're taking these random rock formations and you're bringing to it this interaction. It transforms it from being this random rock into almost this piece of art. It's almost like a sculpture or something. Just by finding the handholds, finding that line up the rock. Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally intertwined.”

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“Climbing is my lifelong journey. And in the same way you go running and you have days where you really feel in tune, you have some days where you don't feel that good. It's this never-ending process. Accepting that and enjoying that for what it is, that's really where the life of climbing is.”

Way Feels Running Process Enjoy Accepting Journey Tunes Climbing Lifelong Never Ending Long Journey Lifelong Journey

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“Climbing is this long term, lifelong journey. It's really important to just take your time with it and keep it fun. I've seen a lot of people burn out because it starts becoming this job for them. It stops being fun. For me, it's been really important to keep it enjoyable. Listen to your motivation.”

People Long Important Jobs Motivation Fun Term Journey Becoming Long Term Climbing Enjoyable Lifelong Burn Out Take Your Time Long Journey Lifelong Journey

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About the Author

Born: April 23, 1981
Known for: Rock Climber
Quotes: 37

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