Adrian Cheok

“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

“So why should someone bother trying to be exceptional? Most people don’t. Most people never commit themselves to doing anything that offers worse than fifty-fifty odds of success. Most people choose to live lives that are as safe and secure as they can make them. But then, most people don’t really think through the human situation. We’re blessed with one life, and that’s all we can be certain about. They take that one life they’re given and they drift through it. Maybe they’re satisfied with that.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is a case study of selected discipline.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“The blocks of the pyramid—things like honesty, patience, integrity, cooperation, and self-control—are not very much different from the virtues I remember being taught during religious instruction.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life