Mark Twight Quotes

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

Punish the body to perfect the soul.

It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

Everything costs something everyone pays

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.

If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?