Quotes from Adam Ondra

What I like about climbing that it's so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.

I was born into a climbing family.

Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.

The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.

Bouldering on real rock, which I'm more used to climbing on, is a lot more static and requires mostly finger power, whereas competition-style boulder problems are about coordination.

I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you don't need good technique. But jugging 400 meters, that's a big deal.

There are way more powerful climbers compared to me but I think I can really take advantage of all my power due to my technique.

If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.

I've never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.

Even though Czech food is traditionally a bit heavy, especially for a climber, I can't resist some dishes: sveckova, for example, is beef in a creamy sauce with celery and dumplings. It's probably fortunate that I don't know how to cook it myself.

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.

I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements - like swimming or running, things that people have been doing for a thousand years.

For meat, I eat mostly high-quality fish and chicken.

Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

I finished my degree so I'm definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.

I didn't want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me it was really important to try to climb it from the ground up at first.

My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.