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.
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!”
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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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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Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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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 always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
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Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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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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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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