“You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.”

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 SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.

I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don’t need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.

We need a doer, not a talker.

I don’t need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

You can’t be a parent and say, ‘I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,’ when you’re still choosing to have poor eating habits.

Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead

As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.

We need practice solving problems.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.