Adam Ondra Quotes

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

I think about what I've accomplished and my career. I care about how many wins I have and whether I'm accomplishing my goals.

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

After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.

Rock climbing and surfing are two of my favorite things in life.

I've climbed in a lot of places, but only once in the U.K., at Stanage Edge in the Peak District.

I want to complete my MBA but don't know when I will find time from my cricket schedule.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

Sometimes people think there is only one track to get to whatever your particular dream job is.

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.

I was 20 years old and I said, 'Okay, if I can't get on TV by 25 then I'll consider another career.' You have to give yourself these arbitrary deadlines just to keep yourself focused and on track.

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

I always want to do things in my career that would make people proud.

Climbing has so much more culture than all other activities put together. There is no culture in tennis, just a few names, a few dates. No big culture in soccer. But we have thousands of books, great philosophers, thinkers, painters.

Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but I didn't have any sort of career aspirations.

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

After completing my studies, I got into advertising.

Since I've started working on my autobiography, I'm going to slow down work. I've decided to reduce my workload by not signing every film that comes my way.

I always focus on what is next in my career.

Every day I'm not working or writing is a wasted day to me.

No sense making plans to get a job or finish school at Johns Hopkins, which I just wasn't getting anything out of. Life was waiting to go back on 'Jeopardy!'

My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.