Royal Robbins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.
-- Royal Robbins

#Dream #Achievement #Mind
With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.
-- Royal Robbins

#Men #World #He Man
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.
-- Royal Robbins

#Self #Skills #Errors
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.
-- Royal Robbins

#Climbing #Feet #Long
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.
-- Royal Robbins

#Letting Go #Thinking #Eight
I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But it was a route worth bolting for, and after a time I began to take an almost perverse joy in it, or at least in doing a good job.
-- Royal Robbins

#Jobs #Unique #Climbing
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.
-- Royal Robbins

#Ambition #Thinking #Climbing
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.
-- Royal Robbins

#Rocks #Battle #Fields
Better we raise our skill than lower the climb
-- Royal Robbins

#Skills #Raises #Climbs
A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.
-- Royal Robbins

#Simple #Numbers #People
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.
-- Royal Robbins

#Order #Risk #Alive
Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be done in five days, perhaps less; and a younger generation will make a new route on the west face.
-- Royal Robbins

#Climbing #Accomplishment #Generations
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.
-- Royal Robbins

#Winning #Self #Rocks
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.
-- Royal Robbins

#Games #Climbing #Giving
A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song
-- Royal Robbins

#Song #Ascent #Firsts

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