Bear Grylls Quotes
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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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.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.