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To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was going to get a real job. But climbing is a real job for me now, and I enjoy it. It's a gift that I'm able to do it, share adventure and motivation with people.

Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

I climb mountains.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.