I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
BEAR GRYLLSLife’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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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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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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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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A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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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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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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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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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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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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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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