Bear Grylls Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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!”

“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.”