Mark Udall Quotes

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

I've always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty.

I like to take on challenges.

The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage it

There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

I've always thrived on challenges, both personally and professionally.

I think I've always enjoyed a challenge and I like being pushed and I like being stretched to the absolute limit. I think a lot of actors are like this.

I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.

I felt, and it may sound a bit stupid, that I want to try things that are hard.

I want to take chances. I want to kind of step out of my comfort zone, whatever that may be.

I'm always looking for challenges.

The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become.

Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.