The businessmen of the world who are not taking environmental matters seriously are just wasting money, aside from damaging the environment it's wasting money and in this economic climate you just can't afford to do that.

Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

If you've got a problem and you multiply it by 50-million people, it becomes unsolvable, but if you've got a problem and you divide it by 50-million people, it becomes solvable.

I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over.

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.