Best climbing quotes

I use to climb in the Southeast with a climber named Tom O'Shields. He had either stainless steel balls or no sense of self preservation. We climbed a lot of hard slabs (welcome to the southeast) with little to no protection.  His favorite saying with a maniacal grin was "When in doubt, run it out!"

FrankPS, I think it was John Long at the Idyllwild boulders.

Muscrat wrote:

What's Eiger sanction?

A Clint Eastwood movie based on a spy novel.

"You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.”

- Yvon Chouinard

Marc801 C wrote:

A Clint Eastwood movie based on a spy novel.

Irony, son, irony.

climber: "ON BELAY?!"

belayer: "off belay"

"Ignorance based confidence"

Trust your feet.

Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.

Ranger: Did you guys hear any gunfire a bit ago?

Me: Gunfire? No, we ... Oh, wait, that was my friend's butthole slamming shut when he whipped off at the clip.

"The only true sports are bullfighting, motor racing, and mountain climbing. The rest are merely games."

- Ernest Hemingway

Jokes Off.  Belay On.

Tourist: How tall is that cliff?

Erik Herzog: Take 14 toaster ovens, fill them with sausages. Take those sausages and lay them end to end. Measure them and you will have the precise height.

"It was like having sex with death."

-Barry Blanchard

"It's important that you never exceed your judgement. My judgement was really bad, though." --Pete Cleveland 

When In Doubt, Run It Out

I abide by the Golden Rule of Trad Climbing.........Don't Fall

on belay!

"Bouldering...because you blew all your money on weed."

"Put your legs out like that, and you're stemming. That's a stem. You're stemming. That's what a stem is. Nice stem! That's how you stem. That's a stem move."

Overheard at the gym by my regular partner and I, it's now a running joke between us.

slim wrote:

another one i like is "we aren't going down and i'm not leading another pitch."

Didn't realize we had climbed together before!