#climbing

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#been #before #climbing #ever #fed

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#been #build #climbing #had #permitted

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? STRAUSS: No, I don't. RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there. ↗

— Neil Strauss

#climbing #experiences #finally #life #top

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#climbing #demands #everest #mount #mount everest

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins. ↗

— Saku Koivu

#climbing #getting #go #got #keep

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#blood pressure #climbing #get #go #high

Climbing is what I do. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#i #i do

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#addicted #climbing #environment #extraordinary #i

Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?" "Yeah," I (Percy) said. "Why is there lava pouring down it?" "Little extra challenge..." - Percy ↗

— Rick Riordan

#climbing-wall #lava #nico-di-angelo #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#climbing #creeping #doing #meanest #men