Quote

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.

Bear Grylls

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bear Grylls
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 7
Adventurer
Explorer
Motivational Speaker
Mountaineer
Television Presenter
Writer
London
England
Edward Michael Grylls
Every
Call
Snakes
Really
Religious
Bites
Time
Whatever
Zone
Jobs
Phone
Goodnight
Away
Wherever
Satellite
Back
Phones
Crocodiles
Children
Hardest
Satellites
Thing
Boys
Snake

More quotes by Bear Grylls

Image
Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
Bear Grylls
Image
One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
Bear Grylls
Image
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.
Bear Grylls
Image
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
Image
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
Bear Grylls
Image
Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
Bear Grylls
Image
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.
Bear Grylls
Image
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.
Bear Grylls
Image
I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
Bear Grylls
Image
I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
Bear Grylls
Image
It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
Bear Grylls
Image
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.
Bear Grylls
Image
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.
Bear Grylls
Image
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.
Bear Grylls
Image
My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
Bear Grylls
Image
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.
Bear Grylls
Image
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.
Bear Grylls
Image
Sometimes an ember is all we need.
Bear Grylls
Image
I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
Bear Grylls
Image
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
Bear Grylls