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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Bear Grylls

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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Dream Give Up Winning
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
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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Answers Empowering Simple
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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Give Up Heart Survival
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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Mirrors Price Pride Tag
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.
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Clear Famous Lines Sude Trying Want
As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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Grows Risk Society Terrified
I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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Clothes Fire Thinking
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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Adventure People Teamwork
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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Adventure Kids Want
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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Dawn Giving Lines Up
Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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Rocks Shows Squirrels TV
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
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
My Christian faith is my backbone
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Backbone Christian Faith
As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Healthy Meat Trying

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