I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.
Erik WeihenmayerClimbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.
Erik WeihenmayerIt is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.
Erik WeihenmayerPeople have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.
Erik WeihenmayerSuccess is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
Erik Weihenmayer