Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into. Bear Grylls More Quotes by Bear Grylls More Quotes From Bear Grylls I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food. Bear Grylls fast-food cooking home Sometimes an ember is all we need. Bear Grylls embers sometimes needs I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art! Bear Grylls love-making healthy art I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous! Bear Grylls rays brilliant rude 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 tvs special age I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man. Bear Grylls survivor three men 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. Bear Grylls suffering drinking thinking 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. Bear Grylls sitting-down sweat people It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job. Bear Grylls lovely conflict jobs 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. Bear Grylls lines want trying 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. Bear Grylls ice flames giving The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places. Bear Grylls desert mountain dangerous You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly. Bear Grylls one-chance chance 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. Bear Grylls adventure travel thinking 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. Bear Grylls army soldier years A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality. Bear Grylls quality self overcoming I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes. Bear Grylls snakes healthy home Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather. Bear Grylls priorities survival weather 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. Bear Grylls climbing dad thinking I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up. Bear Grylls baptists growing-up robins