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

- Alain Robert

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

- Bill Walton

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

- Bear Grylls

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.

- Annie Smith Peck

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

- Aron Ralston

Climbing is what I do.

- Anatoli Boukreev

I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.

- Alex Lowe

Climbing is a journey without culmination.

- Alex Lowe

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

- Alex Lowe

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

- Alex Lowe

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

- A. C. Benson

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

- Alain Robert

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

- Antonio Banderas

Climbing is definitely very much strength-to-weight ratio. At the same time, I've never dieted or restricted calories. You're just sort of mindful about not getting plump.

- Alex Honnold

We are apes - we should be climbing.

- Alex Honnold

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.

- Alex Honnold

I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.

- Alex Honnold

I love my climbing shoes. Virtually all of my big solos have been in the TC Pros. They are the most important thing when I'm soloing.

- Alex Honnold

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

- Andy Serkis

First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

- Aaron Sorkin