“It’s a great honour to have the nickname of Iceman, it makes me feel very proud of my achievements.”

Fear is a great signal. It’s like a pain signal. Hey, look at me, look at me. Get your focus right over here, at the pain.

The cortex is the enemy.

I think of the cold as a noble force.

I’m not afraid to die. But I’m afraid to not live.

I don’t bother with gyms, I just workout where I happen to be whether it’s in the garden or at home.

Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception.

I had to find the interconnection of my brain together with my physiology.

Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.

Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, ‘Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.’ People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.

When I am performing ice immersion, actually I do not think very much. It is all before.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

Yes, my teacher is the cold.

In the cold I centre myself and my breathing to transfer all my heat into the centre of my body.

I’ve done about anything I can fantasize about in the cold.

I’m able to control the body through just the power of the mind.

Every body has mind power, I have learned to direct it toward my body and thus influence the cold and heating-system of my metabolism.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the false to achieve primacy over the facts.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don’t sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.