I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
BEAR GRYLLSTextbook 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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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.
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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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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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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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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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A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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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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A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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