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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.

Bear Grylls

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Bear Grylls
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 7
Adventurer
Explorer
Motivational Speaker
Mountaineer
Television Presenter
Writer
London
England
Edward Michael Grylls
Wanted
Never
Trained
Forces
Special
Age
Force
Young

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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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I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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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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Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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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.
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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 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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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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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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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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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.
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