Bear Grylls Quotes
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.