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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
Trained
Forces
Special
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Young
Wanted
Never

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I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
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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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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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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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What I've learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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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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You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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A wise man knows learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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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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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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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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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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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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