Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
BEAR GRYLLSI 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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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.
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“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.
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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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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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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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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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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.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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