But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
BEAR GRYLLSI try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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My best life lessons and education didn’t come from a classroom – they’ve come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
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Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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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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Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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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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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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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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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.
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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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