I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

The brain is where most people really screw up.

The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance

There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.