Top 153 Quotes & Sayings by Bear Grylls
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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.
I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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.
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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.
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.
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.
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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.
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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.
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.
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.
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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.
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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.
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.
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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.
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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.
You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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.
Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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.
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.
It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
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