I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
There are people who can't bear to fail. Those people are on the short track as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, 'OK, today's not the day.'
Climbing is a journey without culmination.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.
