Adrian Cheok

“Exceptional people really do come to believe that the journey is more important than the destination. It’s another way of saying that the effort is more important than the outcome.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“Once an individual has a philosophy, he should be ready to answer the question “What if I fail?” He should understand that over the span of a lifetime, the only lasting failure is the failure to try.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“I imagine that a successful atheist must have decided that his life is his complete responsibility. He’s probably decided that there’s no afterlife, so he’s got to make the most of the here and now. Those can be very useful concepts. But some of the best coaches I know of were spiritual men. Joe Gibbs was very single-minded about winning, but he takes a part of every week to discuss faith with a men’s group. Vince Lombardi went to Mass every day. John Calipari does the same.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“From age 14 through the Beijing Olympics, Phelps trained seven days a week, 365 days a year. He figured that by training on Sundays he got a 52-training-day advantage on the competition. He spent up to six hours in the water each day.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results