Eric Greitens Quotes

I have done a lot greater things than 'Survivor.' Going through SEAL training was much harder than 'Survivor.'

In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the people seeking high goals in high places are in Eastern Europe, and they reach their goals because they are willing to suffer more.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.

Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.

Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.

Ultimately, rugby players are like surfers. You look for the perfect wave, but you don't always find it. And if you did, you'd probably pack up and try something else.

To know you're truly alive in wrestling, you have to constantly challenge yourself. You constantly have to do things that you're unsure you can do.

I'm going to try to jump over people, and I'm going to try to run all day. If my body lets me, I'll do it.

So Hell Week is considered to be the hardest week of the hardest military training in the world. It is a week of continuous military training during which most classes sleep for a total of two to five hours over the course of the entire week.

That's probably one of the most challenging things about our sport is walking the line between doing the tricks that you know how to do that are safe and pushing yourself.

I did 510 days SEAL training.

When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.

Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there's a lot more to it than that. Whether it's a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can't really find anywhere else.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.