Philippe Petit Quotes

I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

Climbing is what I do.

I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

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

I'm really into rock climbing and hiking and stuff.

My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

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.

I do rock climbing and tennis.

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.

A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.

I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

I like to go hiking. I like to go rappelling, swimming, biking. I go boogie-boarding. I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.

I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

I grew up rock climbing.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

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.