Competition Quote by Reinhold Messner Download Open image “Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing.” — Reinhold Messner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Competition Greatest Nothing Talk
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber. — Alex Lowe Copy Share Image
Climbing is a cross between an athletic or sporting endeavor and the spiritual. I hope it remains that way. — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The cliches that circulate in the German media about Joachim Sauer are a total fallacy. The fact is that he's his own man. He's… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
For years I was a rock climber and nothing else. I went to school, yes, and university, yes, but in my heart I was… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
An account of an expedition is not a novel. Therefore an authentic account can never be given, let alone written down by someone who… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them - not… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The Copa del Rey is a different competition. It is football in its purest form and is different from the continuity of the league. — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it's not. — Keylor Navas Copy Share Image
If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
Our competition has always been anything that is wasting your time when you're bored at work. In a broad sense. We want people to… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share
I try to keep up with everything - all wrestling across the board. I want to know what the competition is doing, what the… — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
Sometimes in England, people look down at the Europa League, but being from the continent, I've always realised what an important competition it is. — Simon Mignolet Copy Share Image
“There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one". I… — John A. Passaro Copy Share