What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
BEAR GRYLLSIt breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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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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One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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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 think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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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 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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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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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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The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
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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 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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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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