Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls
Edward Michael "Bear" Gryllsis 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionReality Star
Date of Birth7 June 1974
CityDonaghadee, Northern Ireland
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.
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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.
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.
You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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.
Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.
Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me… and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different… and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it…