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“You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant bonus.”

Edmund Hillary

As quoted in 1000 Brilliant Achievement Quotes (2004) by David Deford, p. 4
Source: High Adventure

“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”

Edmund Hillary

Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet, this appears to have originated as a quote about him in a Rolex advertisement.
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“I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt, either, that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics. That has given me more satisfaction than a footprint on a mountain.”

Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World

“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.”

Edmund Hillary

As quoted in "Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conquerer of Everest, Dies at 88" in The New York Times (online edition) (10 January 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/asia/11cnd-hillary.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all