Quotes from Andy McNab

Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.

You know, my world may look like a pile of shit, but at least I sometimes get to sit on top of it

the rasp of the respirator's filter were about as comforting as Darth Vader reading a bedtime story

I was a thirty-seven-year-old man with a lot on his mind but not too much in it.

Anybody who says he's not scared is either a liar or mentally deficient.

Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

They were prepared physically and mentally for war. They'd all had at least nine lives, and had the burns, the dents, the bullet holes and the knife wounds to prove it.

Yes' – Pearce nodded – 'but I don't think Bale was. Lots of big words were used and he struggles beyond two syllables.' 'I'm not sure what's more surprising,' said Biggs. 'That you were listening, or that you just used the word syllables.

He'd been expelled from the movement by Gerry Adams in 1985 for threatening to initiate a campaign of murder that would have hampered the new political strategy. It was a bit like being kicked out of the Gestapo for cruelty.

I'm not going to be pushed around by some Oswald Mosley wannabe with delusions of grandeur.

newly purchased herbal teabags

The Omanis had feasts called haflas where they'd bring a goat in and cook it in the fire. It was always a fantastic gathering. They'd turn up in their Land Cruisers in the middle of nowhere, put the carpets out, and start a fire up. Sometimes they'd tow in a small water bowser as well. There was a huge amount of ritual involved; the animal was treated with immense respect before it was killed, in accordance with Islam.

We certainly wouldn't practise carrying it now: that would be a bit like practising being wet, cold and hungry, which wouldn't achieve anything.

tablecloth. 'He let me leave early. Stomach pains … I might have

If his iPhone rings, he could be fucked. We

I made what must have been about a sixty-point turn and eventually managed to squeeze out of the small and crowded car park at the rear

landing strip.

airport at Genoa, or the one at Pisa's about a hundred

stop for a one-shot camera. Twenty-

Fergus had chosen the base camp carefully. He was always careful. Being careful had kept him alive during his twelve years in the Regiment and now that he was operating alone nothing was going to change.