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 GRYLLSBoth faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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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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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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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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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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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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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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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 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.
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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