Andy Kirkpatrick Quotes & Sayings

I came to win, came as I always do, in order to justify who I am and what I have become; now I don't even know what that is. The rot inside me, the cancer of desire, feels unbearable, now it knows it won't be sated. There's a malignant discontent in there, and without a climb there will be no peace. When - if - I pass over to normal life I know I will drag this feeling with me. — Andy Kirkpatrick

It's not dying that is the problem, he said. 'Climbing is like a lover, and your wife knows this. Whenever you are together, no matter how much you love your family, your thoughts are only of your lover, of climbing. — Andy Kirkpatrick

You should fall because you fail to do the move, not because you fail to try the move. — Andy Kirkpatrick

897. If you haven't laughed or smiled for 24 hours, you need to rethink what you're doing. — Andy Kirkpatrick