Bear Grylls Quotes
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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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 think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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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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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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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
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I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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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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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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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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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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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 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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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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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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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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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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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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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.