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hardcoredana
Mar 22, 2002, 5:01 PM
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In the community forum, we have 2 threads dedicated to just plain ole quotations. We need a thread for quotations that are strictly related to climbing. Bring 'em on, peeps!
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rrrADAM
Mar 22, 2002, 5:10 PM
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"The best part about rock climbing is taking off your shoes." ~Josiah Carrol (best friend & introduced me to climbing)
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mauta
Mar 22, 2002, 5:22 PM
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This is not about a climber, but is somewhat related. It refers to the south pole conquerers. I strongly suggest you to read about Shackleton adventures in the south seas!! “For scientific leadership, give me Scott, for swift and efficient travel give me Amundsen. But when you are in a hopeless situation, when you are seeing no way out, get done on your knees and pray for Shackleton” Sir Raymond Priestley. a member of the 1907-09 Nimrod Expedition.
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crswallrat
Mar 22, 2002, 6:53 PM
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"Friends don't let friends climb slab." -Bumper sticker on a car in Yosemite
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fiend
Mar 22, 2002, 7:02 PM
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Here is the quotes.txt file which the random quotes script, at the top of the forum index, reads from. All climbing quotes.
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hardcoredana
Mar 22, 2002, 7:39 PM
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No offense to whoever put that file together, but I'm not entirely fond of those quotes. That's why I started the thread, because I thought we could come up with some better ones, and then use them for the rotating random quotes script.
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miagi
Mar 22, 2002, 7:42 PM
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Rock Climbing - "We're above the rest"
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fiend
Mar 22, 2002, 7:50 PM
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Those quotes are rad! There's about 50 or so 'literature' climbing quotes in there as well, they don't come up that often though
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rrrADAM
Mar 22, 2002, 8:11 PM
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I started off the Great Quotes thread with this one... "The only cure for fear of falling is to jump." ~Carl Jung
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case22
Mar 22, 2002, 9:02 PM
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No one can tell you how or when to climb, it's yours alone to conquer at your own pace and time. -unknown
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maculated
Mar 22, 2002, 9:28 PM
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My personal favorite comes from one of my climbing partners: "You put the atc through the middle loop because, while I'll put it through both main loops to protect *my* area, you're on your own with *yours.*" Loops being the tie-in leg loops and middle loop and the effect of 'crunching' said area.
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theamish
Mar 22, 2002, 10:02 PM
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"If you don't let go, You can't fall off" I forgot who said it.
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dynomaster
Mar 22, 2002, 10:07 PM
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I like the slab bumper sticker! Dyno On Andy
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toprope_media
Mar 23, 2002, 3:17 AM
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There are only three sports, Bull Fighting, Motor Car Racing, and Mountaineering. The rest are just games. -Hemmingway (or something similar to that.)
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hang_man
Mar 23, 2002, 3:20 AM
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The only way is up
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estebandb
Mar 23, 2002, 3:44 AM
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"Remember when sex was safe and climbing was dangerous?" "Love a Climber, they use protection" "If someone were to ask me to quit climbing because they love me so much and doesn't want to lose me, I'd be out the door so fast, that someone wouldn't have time to say adios." Inez Drixelius. "Why? Why, why, why do I do this???" Chuck Pratt. "Vertigo I can handle alright It's horizonto that drives me nuts." Jim Lubell. i got this quotes from a website- not trying to get the credit
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apollodorus
Mar 23, 2002, 3:53 AM
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"It should be understood that these men (El Cap climbers) were not climbing any more than a stenographer going up an elevator was climbing. They were hoisting themselves up on a series of crude pulleys. The skill required is that required to drive a nail. Their courage is beyond question. It is exactly that of the bull in the arena. Confused and tormented by something far beyond their understanding, they react to the sight of the cliff as the bull to the cape. Not knowing why, they charge." - Thomas L.P. Davies, 1970 "Maybe I should have stuck with sports car driving." - Warren Harding [ This Message was edited by: apollodorus on 2002-03-22 20:58 ]
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rockjunky
Mar 24, 2002, 10:35 PM
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My favorite comes from every belayer when your stuck, pumped and about to fall. "Come on it's just right there, just grab it"
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crackaddict
Mar 25, 2002, 10:18 PM
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"Adreneline is best served all day long" Don't know who said it but it sounds cool.
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baalzimon
Jul 1, 2003, 6:57 PM
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The greatest climber in the world is the one who has the most fun. -alex lowe It doesn't have to be fun to be fun. -barry blanchard
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vertical_reality
Jul 1, 2003, 7:06 PM
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For the life of me I can't remember which RC.comer said this but it's definitely my fav... "Suck it up, Cupcake!"
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grigriese
Jul 1, 2003, 7:13 PM
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"People say the we're searching for the meaning of life. I don't think that's it at all. I think that what were seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive." - Joseph Campbell hasbeen uses this quote at the end of his emails. I think it is such a great quote and so relevant to why most people climb even if it is not from a climber.
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coldclimb
Jul 1, 2003, 7:19 PM
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black diamond gear catalogues are excellent sources of good quotes. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. - Jim Morrison Climbing. It seems so simple and direct when you're out there, surging upward with a lungful of bright air. Simple alright, it simply took over my life. - Doug Robinson In this short span between my fingertips and the smooth edge and these tense feet cramped to a crystal ledge, I hold the life of a man. - Geoffrey Winthrop Young A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creatures. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity. - Freidrich Nietzsche It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. - Robert Pirsig It is not a good thing to look at great walls for too long a time. - Yvon Chouinard Climbing may be hard, but it's easier than growing up. - Ed Sklar I needed to clear my head, get some priorities... so I dropped out of college and went climbing. - Ryan Frost
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hallm
Jul 1, 2003, 7:27 PM
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"Don't worry, we'll make it." "I don't think so, but we shall proceed with style." The Eiger Sanctions
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texasclimber
Jul 1, 2003, 7:29 PM
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"you don't die from the fall, you die from hitting the ground"
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