Quotes

Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part of the landscape, part of the rock.

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.

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

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

I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.

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.

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.

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

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

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

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

Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades.

I am full time athlete.

Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.

I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

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.

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.

I was born into a climbing family.

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 think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.

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.

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.

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