It Is Not The Mountain We Conquer,

I Like To Think Of Everest As A Great Mountaineering Challenge, And When You've Got People Just Streaming Up The Mountain - Well, Many Of Them Are Just Climbing It To Get Their Name In The Paper, Really.

June [hillary] Had Been Doing All These Things - The Himalayas And All The Rest Of It - So We Had Done Things Together For A Long Time, And, Particularly As Far As Our Sherpas Were Concerned, We Had A Very Sound, I Think, Philosophy. So That Made It Very Easy For Us To Agree On What Should Be Done.

Mount Everest, You Beat Me The First Time, But I'll Beat You The Next Time Because You've Grown All You Are Going To Grow... But I'm Still Growing!

If I'm Selecting A Group, The First Thing I Look For Is A Record Of Achievement . . . If (candidates Achieve) In Small Things, There's A Very Good Chance They'll Perform Well In Big Things.

I Hate Being Called An 'icon.' I Just Don't Like It. That's All There Is To It.