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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.

Bear Grylls

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
BEAR GRYLLS

Children Father Heart
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dream Fire Light
“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
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 GRYLLS

Eye High Injured Looks
I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
BEAR GRYLLS

Mountain Three Tvs
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
BEAR GRYLLS

Absence Brave Way
Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
BEAR GRYLLS

Fire Important Water
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
BEAR GRYLLS

Death Determined Life Lines
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Body Week Yoga
It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs.
BEAR GRYLLS

Capsule Fruit Nutrition Oxidant Recovery Training
I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dog Fun Running
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
BEAR GRYLLS

Baptist Growing Robins Up
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Clear Famous Lines Sude Trying Want
A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
BEAR GRYLLS

Men Pride Support
That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
BEAR GRYLLS

Flames Giving Ice
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

Couple Running Swimming

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.

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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.

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