I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
BEAR GRYLLSIt’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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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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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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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 was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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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.
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When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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