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.”
BEAR GRYLLSOur 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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As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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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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The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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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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I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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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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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn’t going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It’s all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
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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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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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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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