Bear Grylls Quotes

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.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

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.

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

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.

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.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

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.

My Christian faith is my backbone

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!

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.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

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.

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

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.