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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

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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Attitude Job Running
There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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Coming Danger Feelings Home
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Christian Heart Jesus
Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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Mirrors Price Pride Tag
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Chance One
Without risk, there can be no growth.
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Growth Happen Risk
I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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Healthy Home Snakes
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Air Running Special
I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Know Looks World
Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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Answers Empowering Simple
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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Adventure Kids Want
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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Eight Fire Fun
Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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Ambition Heart Pride
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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Exercise Tree Vines
That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
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Happy Inspire Muscle Question Really Stuff
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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Eyebrows Hands Prayer

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.

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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.

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