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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

Bear Grylls

I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
BEAR GRYLLS

Healthy Home Snakes
Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn’t going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It’s all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
BEAR GRYLLS

Home Needs Nice
Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
BEAR GRYLLS

Mirrors Price Pride Tag
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
BEAR GRYLLS

Grow Survival
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
BEAR GRYLLS

Children Father Heart
Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
BEAR GRYLLS

Done Jobs Procrastination
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Ambition Heart Pride
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
BEAR GRYLLS

Emotion Fearless Stay Strong
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
BEAR GRYLLS

Enough Nobody Straight Stupid
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
BEAR GRYLLS

Luck Matter Trying
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Exercise Tree Vines
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
BEAR GRYLLS

Journey Single Steps
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Fall Military Months
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dangerous Desert Mountain
I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dog Fun Running
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Ends Feelings Planet

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

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