“I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking...” — Bear Grylls Quote

“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.”

“You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.”

“You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.”

“I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.”

“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'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.”

“Bromates are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, but officials are required to test for them only when water leaves a treatment plant.”

“I used to be a party animal back in the day, but now I'm way more healthy, eating and drinking a lot - drinking water.”

“The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.”

“I stopped drinking, I just wanted to have a clean bill of health... Exercise, meditate.”

“During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.”

“It's a myth created by my 'well-wishers' that I used to have long drinking sessions every night with my cronies.”