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.
BEAR GRYLLSDreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it’s really going to hold them back if they don’t.
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Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn’t going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It’s all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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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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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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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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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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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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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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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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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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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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Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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