Best sports & climbing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.”

Way Body Sports Brain Rocks Movement Wall Higher Lows Your Body Climbing Rock Climbing Persuading

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.”

Sports Mountain Originals Tired Satisfaction Climbing Mountain Climbing

Author:Steve Fossett

“I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.”

Sports Challenges Levels Dangerous Danger Mountain Intense Judgement Climbing Intensity Inspirational Sports Fortitude Climbing Mountain

Author:Lincoln Hall

“I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.”

Writing Fighting Games Sports Mountain Driving Climbing Racing Linked Promoting Bulls Motor Mountain Climbing Motor Racing

Author:Brock Yates

“My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.”

Thinking Sports Tree Football Brother My Favorite My Brother Climbing Climbing Trees Playing Outside

Author:Madeline Carroll

“Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment.”

Fun Sports Kings Commitment Climbing No Commitment

Author:Jim Bridwell

“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.”

Wells Children Play Today Turns Sports Rooms Too Much Television Football Walking Exercise Our Children Seats Climbing Turn-on Stadiums Climbing Up

Author:John F. Kennedy

“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.”

People World Want Trying Opportunity Sports Share Unique Advantage Raises Climbing Profile Ambassadors

Author:Chris Sharma

“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

Author:Chris Sharma

“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

Author:Chris Sharma

“Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.”

Source: Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

“that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.”

Doe Spirit Sports Can Do Expression Keys Six Letters Twenties Focused Driven Who I Am Painter Unconscious Climbing Canvas Representation Alphabet

Author:Stacy Allison

“Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.”

“I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.”

Found Sports Air Rocks Ready Balls Cracks Climbing Tactile

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.”

People Different Able Faces Sports Mountain Bigger Blind Technique Ice Developing Climbing Great Sports Snowy Blind People Snowy Mountains

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

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Author:Edmund Hillary

“What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.”

Might Found Felt Sports Wonder Saws Greatness Adventure Difficulty Moved Presses Grades Ingredients Climbing Benches

Author:Peter Croft

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