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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!

Bear Grylls

That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
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Happy Inspire Muscle Question Really Stuff
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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Overcoming Quality Self
Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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Attitude Great Two
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!
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Cards Good Luck Rare Occasion
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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Baptist Growing Robins Up
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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Eye Sheep Zebras
What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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Journey Motivational Unique
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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Adventure Connections People
Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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Jesus Needs People
I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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Eight Fire Fun
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Intuition Night Quiet Voice
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Death Determined Life Lines
The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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Differences Triumph Trying
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Army Soldier Years
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Arena Desert Survival
I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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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!

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