It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.