Tommy Caldwell Quotes

I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.

I've been climbing my whole life, so I know a lot of the feelings, the smells; these memories are pretty distinct in my mind still.

Puszczykowo is an important place in my life. I feel like I am at home there.

It's nice to be able to go do what I love and come home - and get in my own bed.

It always seems like coming to my second home whenever I come to Lucknow.

My real life memory of leaving Uni is an overwhelming excitement to be going home but also a weird numbness.

There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.

Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful.

The first song I ever recorded is called 'ODA' it was a thrilling experience. I was scared and anxious when I stepped into the booth. The more comfortable I got the more I enjoyed it.

Out of my 22 years, I've learned that only one team will treat you the best, and that's your first team.

I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.

I think being back in Australia has kind of helped a little bit because you just feel really comfortable around everyone, and it's the same environment that I've grown up in.

Everything is better when you're floating. Every task you do is fun. You get up in the morning, get coffee, look around, and think, 'Wow, I'm floating!'

Performing is the one time I don't have anxiety - surprisingly, right?

In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone.

I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

I flew helicopters, which actually is the second best view of the earth. The first best view is, I think, a little bit higher.

I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.

I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'

I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine.

I keep my family around me.

I have a weird thing - if I can't see where all the walls in my house are, I get a little bit freaked out. I think New York has Stockholm Syndrome'd my sense of space and what a house should be.

You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.

I think sometimes it's only by talking about what's really going on that you can make it less scary.

Scoring a goal is an explosion of feelings. It's there immediately - bam! Before you kick the ball, you feel like you're 200 kilos. Then the ball leaves your foot, goes through the air and ripples the net. And for that moment, you're weightless.