“I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.”

The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.

Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!

And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.

Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.

I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

I am fearless.

Fearless already runs through your blood. Now do it justice.

I really have no fear.

I ain’t intimidated by Mayweather. Nobody could intimidate me.

Just because you’re doing something doesn’t mean that you’re fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

He is fearless and the way he comes to the music is like we share the same passion for what we do and with somebody from the West. In my opinion that would be a great collaboration.

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.