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On Sale June 1, 2026 First Edition · Paperback Griffix Publishing

Discipline for Athletes Chicken Sh!t
for the Sole

An anti-self-help training manual for athletes and competitors who are sick of losing to their own excuses. Chicken soup comforts the soul. This is for the sole — the part that hits the ground, gets filthy, and keeps moving when the scoreboard is ugly.

Chicken Sh!t for the Sole — book cover
ISBN 979-8195324742 166 PP · $16.99
17
Chapters
6
Parts
30d
Reset Plan
1
Standard
0
Excuses
§ 01 / Before We Start

This Is Not
Self-Help.

A Note from the Author

Self-help is where people wander when they want to feel better about the same problems they keep refusing to fix. This is training, plain and simple. Training doesn't wait for your mood to stretch, hydrate, journal, and finally announce it's ready to show up. Training just shows up — whether you feel like it or not.

Chicken Sh!t for the Sole is written for athletes and competitors who are sick of losing to their own excuses. Not because you're weak or broken or doomed by your last bad season. You are not weak. But you may have been practicing weakness — and that is a completely different thing.

The result is the receipt.
The process is the purchase.

Bad things happen. Families break. Bodies fail. Coaches let you down. Life throws cheap shots. You don't have to pretend none of it hurt. What matters more than the excuse is the question that comes after it: Now what?

This book isn't here to insult you. It is here to insult the excuse that keeps stealing from you. Real pain deserves respect. Real injuries need care. Real mental-health struggles deserve honesty and real help. But excuses? Excuses don't get a trophy.

§ 02 / Table of Contents

What's Inside

Six Parts · Seventeen Chapters · One Standard
PART I 04 Chapters

Watch
the Film

  1. 01The Scoreboard Does Not Care
  2. 02Pain Is Not Always Injury
  3. 03Your Excuses Are on Tape
  4. 04Stop Letting Your Weakest Voice Lead
PART II 04 Chapters

Training
Camp

  1. 05Discipline Beats Motivation
  2. 06Hard Means Hard
  3. 07Your Body Keeps the Receipts
  4. 08Confidence Is Earned
PART III 04 Chapters

Game
Day

  1. 09Pressure Reveals Your Preparation
  2. 10Stop Blaming the Refs
  3. 11Your Feelings Are Not the Game Plan
  4. 12Finish Your Reps
PART IV 03 Chapters

Your Team
& Standards

  1. 13Choose Better Teammates
  2. 14What Loyalty Actually Means
  3. 15Real Respect Is Strength Under Control
PART V 02 Chapters

Keep
Walking

  1. 16Build a Life Beyond the Sport
  2. 17Keep Going After the Game Ends
PART VI The Toolkit

The
Toolkit

  1. →The 30-Day Discipline Plan
  2. →The Rules (Non-Negotiable)
  3. →The Athlete Nutrition Guide
  4. →Final Whistle
§ 03 / Selected Lines

Quotes from the Locker Room

Earn the receipts. Skip the speech.
"Motivation is a rookie.
Discipline is the veteran.
Let the veteran run practice."
Chapter 5 — Discipline Beats Motivation
"Hard means hard.
It does not mean quit."
Chapter 6 — Hard Means Hard
"Your body is where
your excuses go to get exposed."
Chapter 7 — Your Body Keeps the Receipts
"Learn it. Flush it.
Next play."
The Rule of the Reset
§ 04 / Praise

From the
Sideline

Coaches · Athletes · Parents · Readers

Every parent of a serious athlete should read this. Every athlete who wants to stop losing to themselves should read it twice. It's the talk you wish someone gave you at 15.

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Fritz Griffin doesn't lecture. He coaches. This book is exactly what young competitors need — honest, sharp, and impossible to put down.

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A locker-room manifesto with a serif backbone. Funny when it needs to be, brutal when it has to be, and useful on every single page.

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§ 05 / The Toolkit

The 30-Day
No-Excuses Reset

Free Printable PDF

Thirty days. No negotiations. No "I'll start Monday." No journal prompts with stickers. Just you, the work, and the scoreboard that never lies. Six rules, repeated daily, until the rookie packs up and the veteran takes over.

  • 01One daily non-negotiable physical rep
  • 02Ten minutes of honest film review
  • 03Phone curfew by 10 p.m. — no exceptions
  • 04One honest conversation that takes courage
  • 05Finish the rep — no "good enough"
  • 06Sunday night circle check
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§ 06 / Acknowledgments

Coaches Behind
the Book

The Voices in These Pages

These are the coaches who shaped Griffin's sons — and shaped this book. He listened. He took notes. Their voices are thick in every chapter.

Baseball

Mike Sweeney

Kansas City Royals captain. Five-time All-Star. His Seven C's — Character, Courage, Commitment, Confidence, Competitor, Coachable, Care — are woven throughout this book.

Tennis · ATP

Christian Groh

Coached Tommy Haas back to World No. 11 and guided Taylor Fritz from junior ranks to the ATP top tier. One of the most respected coaches in the game.

Baseball · MLB

Carlos Quentin

Chicago White Sox. Two-time All-Star. 2008 Silver Slugger. Nobody works harder. Grateful to have him in our corner.

Tennis · ATP

Grant Doyle

Former World No. 1 junior. Australian Open junior singles and doubles champion. Coach to ATP players including Sam Querrey.

Tennis · College

Derek Miller

Head Tennis Professional, Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club. Four-year letterman at Purdue on a full scholarship. The biggest box of tools for mechanics and mental attitude.

Baseball · MLB

Dave Newhan

Eight major-league seasons. Longtime MLB hitting coach and player-development man. Spent many hours talking shop.

Tennis · College

Campbell Johnson

Cal Tennis. Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Year. The best backhand in the business. A kind soul who lifted everyone around him. Rest in peace, brother.

Baseball · Youth

Josh Jaramillo

Talented youth and high school hitting coach. Taught me a lot.

Throwing · MLB · NFL

Jack Liebesman

Tom House disciple. MLB and NFL throwing coach. Wiser than most for his age.

Baseball · Pro

Brennan Metzger

Long Beach State and San Francisco Giants organization. An inspirational story of grit through Crohn's disease. His attention to detail is next level.

Golf · Baseball

Tyson Colarelli

Golf Coach, Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club. Gets the most out of kids without ever raising his voice. Deep baseball mind too.

Baseball · College

Emiliano Gonzalez

Catcher, UC San Diego. Fun, positive, hungry. Teaches the kids that winning means stealing lunch money from your opponent.

§ 07 / About the Author

Fritz Griffin

Coach · Father · Competitor

Fritz
Griffin

Author · Griffix Publishing

WROTE FOR
His sons. And yours.
CREDO
High standards. No excuses.
METHOD
Learn it. Flush it. Next play.
FIRST ED.
June 1, 2026

Fritz Griffin wrote Chicken Sh!t for the Sole the way a coach writes a playbook — page by page, in the parking lots, on the bus rides, between the tournaments and the rehab sessions. The voices in the book belong to a long list of coaches who shaped his kids: two-time All-Stars, ATP coaches, college champions, and the rare breed who can tell a young athlete the truth without breaking them.

This is not a memoir. It is not a TED talk. It is the book Griffin wished existed when his sons started chasing something serious — a manual hard on excuses, honest about pain, and built on one belief: that the athlete you become is the one you train. Every day. With or without the music.

Dedicated to his sons. Built for everyone else still lacing up.

§ 08 / Final Whistle

Scrape it off.
Lace them up.
Run the next play.

The book ends. The work doesn't. You already know what to do. The scoreboard does not care how motivated you felt while reading. It only cares what you actually do when Tuesday shows up.

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