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 GRYLLSI don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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Don’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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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.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.
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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.
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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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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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My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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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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