Ueli Steck Quotes

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.

Success is overwhelming.

The biggest win of my career is coming.

We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is different now: so near, so close, only a little more than a thousand feet above us. It is no longer just a dream, a high dream in the sky, but a real and solid thing, a thing of rock and snow, that men can climb. We make ready. We will climb it. This time, with God's help, we will climb on to the end.

This is really a dream come true. To be the starting quarterback in the Super Bowl is probably the highlight of my life.

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.

My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

I climb mountains.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.