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 GRYLLSLook, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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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.
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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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When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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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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Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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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’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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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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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.
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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
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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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Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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