“I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.”

People need to learn to live with more risk.

It’s a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can’t.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.

I feel completely alone – it’s like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

If you’ve climbed the first 140 meters it doesn’t mean that you’ve succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

When I climb a building, I’ve been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show,

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.

On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?