“I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.”

That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.

Sometimes an ember is all we need.

Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.

I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.

What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.

I’m a radio nerd. I’ve loved radio since I was a kid. I’m a huge Howard Stern fan.

We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.

I couldn’t wait to get on the ice. I couldn’t wait to get to practice. As a kid I couldn’t wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.

I’m not one of those “omg texting kids rite bad” alarmists. I just think there’s an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.