Words matter. These are the best Bear Grylls Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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.
The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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.
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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.
Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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.
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.
I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I’ll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I’ll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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.
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.
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.
Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right.’ Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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.
I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
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.
My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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.
Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right.’ Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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.
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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