Pat Ament quotes
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“When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time.”
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“Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.”
-- Pat AmentSource : Pat Ament (1997). “How to be a master climber in six easy lessons”
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“The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.”
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“What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.”
-- Pat AmentSource : Pat Ament (1997). “How to be a master climber in six easy lessons”
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“Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.”
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“Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.”
-- Pat Ament
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Source : Source: www.esquire.com
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Source : "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.
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Source : "Andy Serkis Interview – Talks THE HOBBIT, TINTIN, BURKE & HARE and SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 16, 2010.
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“To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.”
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