Ray Matthews has proved to himself time and again that he can do the seemingly impossible - despite what the sceptics may think 👏👏👏
“I was bullied in school. I had bright ginger hair and I hated it. If somebody called me ginger, it was fists up and then I’d cop it when I got home because I’d usually end up with blood all over the only shirt I’d got.”
At the age of ten, Ray joined Rotherham’s Red Lion boxing club. There he took his first steps in learning how to box, but more than that, participating in the sport also forged within him values that would go on to shape his life. "I also learnt never to take the skills you’re being taught out into the street to use against other people,” Ray says. “The idea in my head was I was going to learn how to fight and go back to school to knock seven bells out of the bullies, but of course, that’s not how it works.”
His early physical training also set the foundation for the endurance events Ray has gone on to complete and it helped him to develop the mental strength that he has needed to push through such feats. It is why, in the book, he intertwines the two.
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