Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Never complain and never explain.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.