There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.
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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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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.
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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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