Phil Keoghan quotes:

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

The world is waiting for you. Good luck. Travel safe. Go!

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.

Anything new and different is most susceptible to market research.

I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.

Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an imagination filled with bright ideas, people who care about you and can perhaps help you in some way. These are the things that will enable you to do almost anything.

I love the underdog stories. I love people who refuse to give up.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

If you look around my room, you see lots of lists. I'm inspired by what's up on the wall.

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

As you get older and you realize you really don't know as much as you think you know, you listen more. Because then you think, now I need to be more receptive to the things I don't know. That's how you learn.

At the end of the day, we're all judged by those we leave behind.

I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals.

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.

I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.

There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.

There was some expiration point to my life, and it became very important to maximize the time that I did have on Earth. That's what led me to my personal philosophy: "No Opportunity Wasted" - NOW for short, which is about living life to the fullest.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

We need diversity in our population to make it work.

When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across America, to achieve their own goals - that excites me. It's the power of a story.

Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.