To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Never complain and never explain.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
You never know what motivates you.
Leap, and the net will appear.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.