Adam Ondra

Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.

— Adam Ondra

I was born into a climbing family.

— Adam Ondra

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

— Adam Ondra

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

— Adam Ondra

I am full time athlete.

— Adam Ondra

I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.

— Adam Ondra

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

— Adam Ondra

I finished my degree so I'm definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.

— Adam Ondra

Czech people are quite hard to get to know, in my opinion.

— Adam Ondra

For meat, I eat mostly high-quality fish and chicken.

— Adam Ondra

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

— Adam Ondra

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.

— Adam Ondra

I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.

— Adam Ondra

I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you…

— Adam Ondra

If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.

— Adam Ondra

The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.

— Adam Ondra

The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb…

— Adam Ondra

Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

— Adam Ondra

Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.

— Adam Ondra

I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.

— Adam Ondra

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.

— Adam Ondra

I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds,…

— Adam Ondra

Even though Czech food is traditionally a bit heavy, especially for a climber, I can't resist some dishes: sveckova, for example, is…

— Adam Ondra

My diet is mostly composed of whole-grain cereals, legumes, beans, lentils. Lots of cooked, baked, or steamed vegetables. Lots of spices like…

— Adam Ondra

What I like about climbing that it's so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can…

— Adam Ondra

I didn't want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me…

— Adam Ondra

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No…

— Adam Ondra

I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.

— Adam Ondra

I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements - like swimming or…

— Adam Ondra

I've never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.

— Adam Ondra

Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part…

— Adam Ondra

What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who's…

— Adam Ondra

Bouldering on real rock, which I'm more used to climbing on, is a lot more static and requires mostly finger power, whereas…

— Adam Ondra

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.

— Adam Ondra

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

— Adam Ondra

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

— Adam Ondra

I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.

— Adam Ondra

I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and…

— Adam Ondra

My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.

— Adam Ondra

There are way more powerful climbers compared to me but I think I can really take advantage of all my power due…

— Adam Ondra