Best climbing quotes

Nolan Huther wrote:

TZZSSSSAAAAAAaAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

- Adam Ondra

https://www.mountainproject.com/v/112341036

LOL

"...so I told myself, 'Well, there's no way down. So you're either going up, or you're going up with God!'"

"How did you get the rope up there?"

Can't believe I really did finally hear that a couple weeks ago. Always thought it was just a joke among climbers.

Overheard at Rumney: "Climbing is an uphill battle"

Keep Two pieces between you and the hospital 

“Sometimes when you feel like you’re fucked, you are only about 45 per cent fucked.”

“It doesn’t have to be fun to be fun.”

“I am frightened of what I did yesterday.”

(Places pro)

“How’s it look?”

“It’s good! Just don’t look at it”

-Brad Gobright

Never take Sandstone for Granite.

                                     Layton Kor

“Sport climbing is neither” 

-John Sherman

“It’s pretty safe as long as you don’t fall off”

"Climb Hard, Be Proud, Stay Honed."     M.F.T.

V2 for locals 

"Gravity is My Downfall"

Printed on a shirt given to me by friends.

"Perhaps more than most pursuits, climbing is self-glorifying and self-serving. As we ascend, we risk becoming our own gods" - Tommy Caldwell 

"Pull me up to the fun part" - My buddy in IC

The only way down, is up...

"Vy kant vee choost climb?"  --Anonymous Swiss Guide, on the latest climbing controversy... or maybe it was Camp Counselor Carl

My partner to me while I was scrambling over some particularly terrifying choss to the rap station: 

“I’ve got you on hip belay…oh wait! You’re on neck belay!”

Robin S wrote:

"The only true sports are bullfighting, motor racing, and mountain climbing. The rest are merely games."

- Ernest Hemingway

by Ken Purdy, not Hemingway

"You don't see that everyday ! "  Long ago ,I was told that that was what Bev Johnson said when she & Sibylle Hechtel were making the first all-women ascent of El Capitan  in 1973  & a Spanish team fell from above them .

Christopher Roberts wrote:

“We climbed it because it won’t always be there,” Kor famously quipped.

I think a clarification of this quote is suitable. The background is of course the statement by Mallory when he was asked why climb Mt Everest and he replied "Because it is there". Kor's response was to a similar question regarding climbing in Fisher Towers in Utah. Fisher Towers is famous for being the ultimate choss as you basically climb on dried mud that is constantly crumbling. (... at least, that's the story I heard ...)