Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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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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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
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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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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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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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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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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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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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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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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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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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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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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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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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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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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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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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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.