First Man In: Leading from the Front

by Ant Middleton

If you fuck up the small things, it leads to a big fucking disaster.

Pain isn’t telling you what to do. Pain is asking you a question. All you have to do is say no.

The war is always in your head. You can’t trust your body. It tells you it’s got nothing left when it’s still a hundred miles from breaking. And when it does actually break, it heals. The only true war you’ll ever fight is with your own mind.

You should stand in front of the mirror and be brutally honest with yourself. You won’t want to be. Every atom in your body may well resist. Criticism from other people is bad enough – the last thing you need is criticism from yourself.