Excellent climbing phrases

Finger locks or cedar box.

"It goes, boys"

(Lynn Hill 1993)

When in doubt, run it out.

"Your crux is my rest"

"TAKE take fucking take please god take" 

slab climbing is like drowning in a bathtub, just stand up (this one actually helps)

You can rest when you're dead.  (RIP Joe Szot)

“It’s jugs to the top!” (Often a lie)

After placing a sketchy cam that would be likely to pop, but you needed to get something in and that's all that was available: "That's a slow-me-down piece."

If you ain't flyin, you ain't tryin

"It's all about names in the guidebook."

3 favorites I have heard- not sure who originated them.  

“If I can hit it on the way down, I can use it on the way up” :)

“Climb the climb, not the grade”

“We are all climbing hard, the numbers are just different” 

There's nae grips lad...

"A rope, a rack, and the shirt on your back."

"Condies are lookin' splitter for a romp on the rig."   

take TAKEwrote:

I've often added: be burly, start early

My mantra is : "Be Wussy and start Cushy"

cubist Awrote:

[Trying to take a leak at the base of an ice climb]: "The worst part of ice climbing is trying to thread two inches of penis through three inches of clothing."

My partner likes to say, "it's like trying to find the button on a teddy bear"

In response to did he know the FA: I don't care who took this climbs virginity, I'm climbing it now

"It's like being in a French whorehouse, big jugs all over the place" (my favorite statement about Hell for Leather, grade 13 Arapiles)

My husband likes these:

“Pull harder” (overheard at the cliff from a second, with desperate tone of voice)

And when we encounter choss “Joe wrote: “with cleaning, this will become”…”

(Only old NE climbers who owned the original Joe Cote guide will get this quote about a moss filled route.  Obscure…

Ira OMCwrote:

My mantra is : "Be Wussy and start Cushy"

I am trying to popularize "pack layers or say prayers".

(mostly because I know "fetch" is never going to happen)

Up rope harder I'm not moving by a friend of mine. The rope and rack quote is from Earl Wiggins on climbs in the Black Canyon