Bear Grylls Quotes

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

My earliest childhood memories are just of me falling and getting injuries.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies, and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.

There are three elements of mountaineering - difficulty, danger, and exposure. Difficulty is the technical aspect of it. Danger, it is best to avoid, but some people like to increase danger to a point where their success is dependent only on luck. And exposure, which is what truly defines Alpinism, is what you face in wild nature.

The true alpinist doesn't want any infrastructure, he wants to go into the wild. And the odds of getting killed there are relatively high. And most people are sensible enough not to want that.

I've broken a lot of things. I've torn a lot of muscles. I've torn a lot of ligaments.

At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body.

I've had a lot of injuries.

I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.

I think the only bones I haven't broken are my shoulder, hip, and thigh.

In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand. I am shaken but fortunate to be alive.

Sometimes people do get hurt

Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.

I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.

For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb with as little equipment as possible.

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.