Athletic Quote by Jeff Lowe

Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight…

— Reinhold Messner

Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying…

— Chris Sharma

For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. It’s a means of experiencing…

— Lynn Hill

That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with…

— Chris Sharma

Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's…

— Chris Sharma

Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.

— Fred Nicole

Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It's the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a route, the…

— Reinhold Messner

Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures...

— Wolfgang Gullich

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

— Reinhold Messner

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates,…

— Jonathan Waterman

Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold on. Those…

— Chris Sharma

“The mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it’s over but really wish it would go…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi