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Bear Grylls [1974-0] British

Rank: 11
Explorer, Adventurer

Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild, originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom. Grylls is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout in the UK at age 35.

Faith, Strength, Fear, Home, Chance, Change, Cool, Courage, Dad, Death, Diet, Famous, Fitness, Freedom, Power, Religion, Space, Truth, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.		101
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.		102
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.	Work	103
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.		104
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.	Change	105
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.	Famous	106
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.	Chance	107
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.	Faith, Strength	108
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.	Home	109
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.		110
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.		111
All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.		112
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.		113
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.		114
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.	Fear	115
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.	Truth	116
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.		117
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.		118
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.		119
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.		120
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.		121
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.		122
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.	Fear	123
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.		124
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.	Faith	125
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.	Faith, Home, Religion	126
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.	Power	201
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.	Death	202
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.		203
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.	Dad, Freedom, Space	204
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.		205
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.		206
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.		207
You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.		208
You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.		209
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.		210
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.		211
I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.		212
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.		213
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.		214
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.		215
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.		216
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.	Cool	217
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.	Courage	218
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.		219
Faith is personal if it's to be real.	Faith	220
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.		221
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.		222
It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.		223
My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.	Faith, Strength	224
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.		225
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!		226
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.		301
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.		302
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.		303
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.		304
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.	Strength	305
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.		306
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.		307
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.		308
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.		309
I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.		310
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.		311
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.		312
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.		313
Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.		314
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.		315
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.	Fitness	316
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.		317
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.		318
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.		319
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.		320
I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!		321
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!		322
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.	Diet	323
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.		324
I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.		325
I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.		326
I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.		401
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.		402
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.		403
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.		404
I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.		405
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!		406

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