I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
BEAR GRYLLSLook, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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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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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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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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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’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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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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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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My best life lessons and education didn’t come from a classroom – they’ve come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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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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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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