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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.

Bear Grylls

Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Changing Life Use Way Your
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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Alive Decisions Fate Make
Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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Heart Home Winning
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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Classic Men Wise
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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Climb Dad Thinking
The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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Hell Lessons Life Rewards
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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Adventure People Teamwork
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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Drinking Suffering Thinking
There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Climbing Heart Running
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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Decision Fearless Kids
My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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Fire Nice Snakes
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
If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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Gains Nothing Risk
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Boys Life Modern Young
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 do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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Ends Feelings Planet

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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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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