Adventure Sport Quotes

I grew up rock climbing.

Climbs like the Dawn Wall don't come around every day.

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.

I like to go rock scrambling.

Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I really expected not to come back alive.

This is a crazy sport.

For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

Snowboarding really is a luxury sport.

One thing I thought of, I call it By Sea, By Land, By Foot. It'd be a 100-mile paddle, a 100-mile run, and a 100-mile bike, back-to-back-to-back. But I don't want to end up in the hospital.

Climbing is an understated culture.

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

Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

I climb mountains.

Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant.

In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

This is a sport for crazy people, a unique sport.