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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!

Bear Grylls

I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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Careers Climber Soldier
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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Luck Moments Plans
Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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Cynical Hey Kids
All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It’s the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
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Determination Journey Motivational
You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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Fall Get Numbers Up
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Priority Survival Weather
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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Risk Survival Waiting
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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Hell Lessons Life Rewards
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.
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Body Week Yoga
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
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Differences Give Up Ordinary
I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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Attitude Job Running
Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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Embers Needs Sometimes
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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Little Time Littles Quiet
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Luck Matter Trying
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Journey Single Steps
Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.
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Men People Risk

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