For meat, I eat mostly high-quality fish and chicken.
— Adam Ondra
For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.
Czech people are quite hard to get to know, in my opinion.
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 felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.
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 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.
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.
Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.
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.
I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.
I am full time athlete.
The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.
I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.
My diet is mostly composed of whole-grain cereals, legumes, beans, lentils. Lots of cooked, baked, or steamed vegetables. Lots of spices like curcumin or cumin that help aid digestion. Some superfoods.
I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.
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.
I do not climb really dangerous stuff.
I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.
I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.
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.
The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.
Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.
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.
Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.
Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades.
I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.
I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.
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.
When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.
My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.
I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.
Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.
I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.
I was born into a climbing family.
What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who's best, but climbing harder and harder routes makes it more fun.
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.
It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.
I finished my degree so I'm definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.
If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, ‘Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.
I've never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.
