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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.

Bear Grylls

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Luck Matter Trying
Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
BEAR GRYLLS

Risk Survival Waiting
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
BEAR GRYLLS

Eye High Injured Looks
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
BEAR GRYLLS

Adventure People Teamwork
Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dream Fire Light
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
BEAR GRYLLS

Baptist Growing Robins Up
There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
BEAR GRYLLS

Climbing Heart Running
Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
BEAR GRYLLS

Blessing Exciting Seeing
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Fall Get Numbers Up
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
BEAR GRYLLS

Face Rock Tea
As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
BEAR GRYLLS

Grows Risk Society Terrified
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dream Real Tasks
I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
BEAR GRYLLS

Drinking Suffering Thinking
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
BEAR GRYLLS

Enough Nobody Straight Stupid
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
BEAR GRYLLS

Determine Lines Self
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
BEAR GRYLLS

Army Soldier Years

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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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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