Bear Grylls

“I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.”

“The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.”

“I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.”

“I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.”

“Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.”

“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.”

“Faith is personal if it's to be real.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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'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.”

“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 try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.”

“The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To me, my Christian faith is all about being held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened, and loved--yet somehow that message gets lost on most of us, and we tend only to remember the religious nutters or the God of endless school assemblies. This is no one's fault, it is just life. Our job is to stay open and gentle, so we can hear the knocking on the door of our heart when it comes. The irony is that I never meet anyone who doesn't want to be loved or held or forgiven. Yet I meet a lot of folk who hate religion. And I so sympathize. But so did Jesus. In fact, He didn't just sympathize, He went much further. It seems more like this Jesus came to destroy religion and to bring life.”

“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!”