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Ant Middleton
English
Soldier
Born:
Sep 22
,
1980
Good
Man
Me
Military
People
You
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Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.
Ant Middleton
Life
Me
People
Communicate
Key
Take For Granted
Manners
Respectful
All People
Able
Having
Take
Polite
Got
Being
Far
Skills
Granted
Levels
If you mind tells your body you can't do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Ant Middleton
You
Mind
Will
Giving
Giving Up
Think
Other
Carry
Tells
Foot
Putting
Up
Quit
Front
Body
Your
Your Body
Naturally
Keep
I joined the Marines, passed Special Forces selection, and became a young leader in the military.
Ant Middleton
Leader
Young
Military
Marines
Joined
Selection
Forces
Became
Passed
Special
Special Forces
I wanted people to know that I'm human, and I'm only successful because I've learned the hard way. I've been in so many dark places, but I got myself out.
Ant Middleton
Myself
People
Dark
Way
Out
Dark Places
Only
Know
Learned
Because
Got
Been
Human
Wanted
Places
Successful
Hard
Many
Hard Way
Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.
Ant Middleton
Best
Me
You
Yourself
Try
Inside
No-One
Know
Look
Real
Version
Person
Get
Then
Who
Some are happy with where their comfort zone is, but I like to be constantly tested, and I think it's good.
Ant Middleton
Good
Happy
Think
Constantly
Some
Like
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Tested
Where
Zone
When I took on Everest, I'm not there for the views.
Ant Middleton
Took
Views
Everest
You come on my course and enter my world - I don't care who you are or where you're from - you're a number until you prove yourself otherwise.
Ant Middleton
You
Yourself
World
Care
Otherwise
Enter
Come
Until
Course
Prove
dont Care
Where
Who
Number
I want to see you use your brain. Get the job done efficiently. I want to see an intelligent operator at work. And apart from that, to stay on my good side, just do as you're told.
Ant Middleton
Work
Good
You
Job
Side
Stay
See
Operator
Brain
Intelligent
Efficiently
Get
Done
Just
Want
Apart
Use
Your
One minute, you're dropping your teenage son off to a festival, and the next, you're changing a nappy, but I love the versatility and challenge of being a father.
Ant Middleton
Love
You
Son
Challenge
Father
Changing
Teenage
One Minute
Minute
Dropping
Versatility
Off
Festival
Being
Next
Your
I was very selfish when I was in the military - a very selfish man.
Ant Middleton
Man
Selfish
Military
Very
I wanted a challenge, wanted to be self-sufficient, so I thought, 'Go and join the army,' at a young age, and I just happened to be good at what I done and went up the ladder and went up to the top.
Ant Middleton
Good
Army
Age
Challenge
Thought
Young
Ladder
Top
Join
Go
Self-Sufficient
Up
Done
Just
Young Age
Wanted
Happened
In the SAS, if you're not good enough, you're graded out of it.
Ant Middleton
Good
You
Not Good Enough
Enough
Out
I joined the army because I was a very self-sufficient young man. I always wanted to stand on my own two feet.
Ant Middleton
Man
Army
Own
Young
My Own
Joined
Feet
Because
Always
Self-Sufficient
Very
Wanted
Young Man
Stand
Two
I'm an extreme do'er - I'm not an intellect; I'm not a bookworm. I do, do, do, and nine times out of ten, I fail, but I learn from that.
Ant Middleton
Nine
Extreme
Out
Ten
Fail
Learn
Intellect
Times
When I first joined the army, I felt I had to be part of the alpha male culture. But I didn't.
Ant Middleton
Army
Culture
First
Joined
Had
Part
Alpha
Felt
Male
I was never one to think about why I need to go running or go to the gym - it just came naturally to me.
Ant Middleton
Me
Think
Running
About
Gym
Never
Came
Go
Just
Naturally
Why
Need
When it comes to Everest, psychologically, you have to be in the red. If you're not, it doesn't matter how fit you are. I've seen the fittest of people, who I thought would steam up the top of Everest, allow the pressure to take over their body.
Ant Middleton
You
People
Matter
Pressure
Thought
Seen
Top
Would
Steam
Take
Allow
Red
Over
How
Fit
Up
Fittest
Psychologically
Body
Who
Everest
We have a responsibility as ex-soldiers to realise we're no longer in the military. All this 'once a soldier, always a soldier', that's all well and good, but that attitude doesn't work in society.
Ant Middleton
Work
Attitude
Good
Responsibility
Military
Society
Once
Soldier
Longer
Well
Always
Realise
What's next? Let's do it! My life is chaotic and spontaneous, which is the way I like it.
Ant Middleton
Life
My Life
Chaotic
Way
Like
Spontaneous
Which
Next
Whatever I turn my hand to, I put in the effort to be the best.
Ant Middleton
Best
Whatever
Put
Hand
Effort
Turn
I might wake up in the morning and go out for a six- to eight-mile run, and then in the afternoon, I might swim two or three kilometres. The next day, I'll mix it up and do a military circuit. I don't stick to a set programme.
Ant Middleton
Day
Morning
Wake Up
Three
Military
Circuit
Out
Run
Stick
Go
Mix
Wake
Up
Six
Afternoon
Might
Then
Next
Swim
Two
Programme
Set
When you're in the military, you teeter on the edge of that line of life and death. The reason you feel so alive when you come through is because you know you've cheated death - and that and the adrenaline rush is addictive, no question.
Ant Middleton
Life
Death
You
Edge
Military
Addictive
Alive
Life And Death
Rush
No Question
Adrenaline
Through
Cheated
Feel
Come
Know
Because
Line
Question
Reason
I was point man, which meant I was the first through the door, hunting down Taliban commanders, knocking down forts every night.
Ant Middleton
Man
First
Down
Every
Hunting
Point
Through
Knocking
Taliban
Door
Which
Meant
Every Night
Night
When I was younger, if I got into arguments, I'd become aggressive and violent, but I learnt the hard way that was only going to end negatively.
Ant Middleton
Argument
Become
Aggressive
Negatively
Way
Only
Got
Learnt
End
Going
Younger
Hard
Hard Way
Violent
When I left the military, I thought I would not have any problems with the transition - I'm very adaptable and very versatile - but I was wrong.
Ant Middleton
Problems
Thought
Military
Would
Wrong
Versatile
Left
Very
Any
Transition
Adaptable
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