Top 100 Quotes About Grylls
#1. You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
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#2. I actually grew up watching 'Survivorman' and Bear Grylls. I know that pine needles are a good source of vitamin C and just random facts from watching the stuff.
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#4. If Bear Grylls bred with Chuck Norris, I would be their love child. That's how skilled I am." Lucy's face remained carefully blank. "Thank you for that disturbing imagery. But we both know Chuck Norris needs no one. He creates children from thought alone." "Agree
Jaymin Eve
#5. got that dark, second-day stubble that gives him just the right amount of ruggedness. He looks like a perfect combination of a New York intellectual and a sexy Bear Grylls.
R.S. Grey
#7. I learned two very strong lessons from them: the grass isn't always greener elsewhere, and true love is worth fighting for.
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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#11. Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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#12. 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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#13. Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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#14. 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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#15. Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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#16. The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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#17. Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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#18. It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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#19. Empty vessels make the most noise. It is true. The best adventurers and climbers, and the most successful people I know in life, are all great listeners, and they don't talk too much.
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#20. Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"
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#21. At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.
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#22. For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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#23. It was like climbing a mountain of waist-deep molasses while giving someone a fireman's carry, who, for good measure, was also trying to force a pair of frozen socks into your mouth. Nice.
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#24. You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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#25. 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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#26. I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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#27. 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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#28. I was in and out of the hospital almost daily from then on.
They X-rayed, poked, and prodded me, and then they did it again for good measure.
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#29. You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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#30. A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.
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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#35. 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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#36. I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
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#37. Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.
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#38. This is your life. Be bold with it. Live it with energy and purpose in the direction that excites you. Listen to your heart, look for your dreams: they are God-inspired.
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#39. As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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#40. Life rewards the dogged, not the qualified.
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#41. I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.
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#42. 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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#43. Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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#44. I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
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#45. When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
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#46. 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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#47. I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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#48. All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
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#49. 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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#50. Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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#51. People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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#52. 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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#53. But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.
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#54. 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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#55. But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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#56. 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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#57. I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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#58. I have a good feeling about today." Seth admitted.
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#59. Life'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.
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#60. All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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#61. Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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#62. 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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#63. And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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#64. I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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#65. I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so ... anoraky.
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#66. In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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#67. Winston Churchill (him again!) once said words to the effect that everyone gets the chance to make their fortune once, but not everybody takes it.
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#68. 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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#69. Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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#70. If the person you're speaking to will think worse or less of the person you're speaking about, then it's gossip, so cut it out!
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#71. Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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#72. I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
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#73. When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
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#74. I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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#75. But the winners are those who know that when things get really hard and others start to fall away, that is the time to dig deep and give that little bit extra.
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#76. If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
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#77. Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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#78. Sir Edmund Hillary, Everest's first conqueror, once said that the mountains gave him strength. I'd never really understood this until now. But it was intoxicating.
Something deep inside me knew that I could do this.
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#79. There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.
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#80. I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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#81. There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
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#82. You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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#83. I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
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#84. There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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#85. I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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#86. I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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#87. I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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#88. I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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#89. Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. It can also make them fun to be around.
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#90. 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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#91. Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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#92. I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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#93. Sometimes you have just got to tackle these mountains head-on.
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#94. Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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#96. 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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#97. If you want it bad enough, you'll pass.
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#98. You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.
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#99. Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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#100. Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.
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