Close to Home (Tracy Crosswhite, #5)

by Robert Dugoni

Failure had a terrible way of lingering in the recesses of your mind, waiting for another opportunity to smack you with horrible pangs of guilt.

“If you go in thinking you’re going to lose, you’ve already lost. If you go in thinking you’re going to win, you’ll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you’re going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.”