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.
BEAR GRYLLSThat feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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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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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
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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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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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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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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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