Latest Phil Keoghan Quotes from Interviews

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

  Phil Keoghan

  Giving Up, People, Underdog

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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

  Phil Keoghan

  Odds, People, Underdog

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Thinking, Assumption, Terrible

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Real, Inspire, Facts

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  America, Goal, People

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Reading, People, Inspire

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Thinking, Needs, Realizing

  "A Conversation with Phil Keoghan | Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Drinking, Blood, Stories

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Thinking, Opportunity, Get Better

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kort, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Years, Television, Want

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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

  Phil Keoghan

  Special, Hollywood, Storyteller

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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

  Phil Keoghan

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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

  Phil Keoghan

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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

  Phil Keoghan

  Stories, Telling Stories, Driven

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Things In Life, People, Design

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 5, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  College, People, Vision

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• Anything new and different is most susceptible to market research.

  Phil Keoghan

  Different, Research, Market Research

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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

  Phil Keoghan

  School, Energy, Needs

  FaceBook post by Phil Keoghan from May 06, 2013

• I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.

  Phil Keoghan

  Believe, Adversity, Incredibles

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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

  Phil Keoghan

  Teacher, Children, Addresses

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• We need diversity in our population to make it work.

  Phil Keoghan

  Diversity, Population, Needs

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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

  Phil Keoghan

  Kids, School, Ideas

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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

  Phil Keoghan

  Kids, Creating, Listening

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Phil Keoghan

  Dream, Jobs, Want

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.