Royal Robbins Quotes

Enjoy the top 14 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Royal Robbins.

“My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.”
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“Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.”

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“With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.”

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“The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.”

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“Better we raise our skill than lower the climb”

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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 give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.

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“Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.”

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“The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.”

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“A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song”

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“When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.”

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“I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could and then letting go. On my next try I climbed with no thought of failure and reached the top. We cannot know what we can do in advance. The only way to find out is to go all-out trying, thinking only of success.”

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“A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.”