black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

Bear Grylls

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
BEAR GRYLLS

Face Rock Tea
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
BEAR GRYLLS

Christian Heart Jesus
I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
BEAR GRYLLS

Drinking Suffering Thinking
Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.
BEAR GRYLLS

Detail Jesus Jobs Mind
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Alive Decisions Fate Make
I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
BEAR GRYLLS

Careers Climber Soldier
“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
BEAR GRYLLS

Empower Expose Kids Understand Work
I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
BEAR GRYLLS

Animal Health Snakes
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dangerous Desert Mountain
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Appeals Awareness Come Up
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Fire Nice Snakes
Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
BEAR GRYLLS

Answers Empowering Simple
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
BEAR GRYLLS

Journey Single Steps
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dream Fire Men
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
BEAR GRYLLS

Conflict Jobs Lovely
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Benchmark Giving Impress Taught Way

To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bear Grylls Quotes