Sol Campbell Quotes

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.

I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.

It was a competitive household. If I wanted to win at something, I had to work for it. It made me understand I could do anything I put my mind to.

I was the first man to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks without supplementary oxygen, but I never asked how high I would go, just how I would do it.

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.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

I don't like talking about climbing that much. You don't have to discuss; just do it.

[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.