Alex Honnold Quotes

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

I wish people were realer in talking about how leaps of faith don't have to be taken without at least looking down first.

When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I'm not a reckless person, in the sense that I wouldn't do something that's reckless or dangerous, because I'm a pretty careful person. For example, I don't snow ski. I did it once, and I promised God I'd never do it again if I lived through it.

No one tests the depth of the river with both feet.

If you want to avoid all risks, soon you will have no risks to worry about.

The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn't take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, 'Well, if they're offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.'

If you don't have reservations, you're a fool. You can't go blind into something.

I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

When I was at uni, I got good grades and went on to do honours, but I kept thinking, 'I shouldn't be here.' Something just didn't feel right. When I finished, I decided that every decision I make from this day forward will be purely based on intuition, and I'm not going to fight that.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

Be safe and be realistic. They're both equally important.

I'm not really much of a risk taker.

Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.