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" I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it. "

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" I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. "

" I was definitely very much a country boy. "

" Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards. "

" My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday. "

" I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice. "

" My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too. "

" Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were. "

" It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. "

" While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges. "

" I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe. "

" I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs. "

" Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. "

" No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. "

" When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable. "

" When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people. "

" I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate. "

" People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. "

" I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation. "

" I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true. "

" I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains. "

" It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. "

" I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men. "

" I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary. "

" When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them. "

" I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics. "

" The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life. "

" Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. "

" There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti. "

" If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers. "

" I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers. "