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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Bear Grylls

I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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Brilliant Rays Rude
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Arena Desert Survival
One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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Brave Fear One Sure Thing
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.
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Dream Fire Light
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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Men Pride Support
That 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.
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Flames Giving Ice
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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Challenges Made Want
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Journey Single Steps
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Absence Brave Way
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
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
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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Benchmark Giving Impress Taught Way
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
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Chance One
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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Cards Good Luck Rare Occasion
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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Believe Care Giving

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

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