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 RobbinsA simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.
Royal RobbinsInstead 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 RobbinsClimbing 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