Author : Alfred Slote
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780380017249
Ezell's father finagles a Little League team for Ezell and his friends with himself as coach, a job he's never had before.
Author : Tom Limbert
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1452113025
A collection of inspirational quotes for dads, from some of the greatest coaches in sports history. Dads do what the best coaches do: They motivate, mentor, discipline, and love. This playbook collects more than one hundred moving quotes form the greatest coaches of all time. Author Tom Limbert then takes their wisdom and applies it to the game of fatherhood. With a foreword by Hall of Fame Quarterback Steve Young and quotes from John Madden, Vince Lombardi, Tommy Lasorda, Phil Jackson, and many more legends, dads will find a wealth of inspiration in these pages.
Author : David Halberstam
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1401305202
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam's bestseller takes you inside the football genius of Bill Belichick for an insightful profile in leadership. Bill Belichick's thirty-one years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success--most recently with the New England Patriots. In this groundbreaking book, David Halberstam explores the nuances of both the game and the man behind it. He uncovers what makes Bill Belichick tick both on and off the field.
Author : Gary Myers
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 145559847X
From the New York Times bestselling author of Brady vs. Manning and dean of football writers - a book that explores the many interesting facets to NFL quarterbacks and their relationships with their fathers. Tom Brady's father is an estate planner. Jim Harbaugh's father had a long career as a college coach. Archie Manning played fourteen years in the NFL and never made the playoffs, but his sons Peyton and Eli won a combined four Super Bowls. Joe Montana is considered by many to be the greatest quarterback of all time, but his two sons bounced around college football with limited success. Jameis Winston's father supported his family working overnight highway construction in Alabama. Derek Carr's father moved the family to Houston after Derek's older brother, David, was drafted by the Texans. My First Coach goes behind the scenes to explore the unique relationship between these and other quarterbacks and their fathers, as well as investigate various approaches to parenting through their stories. Can young athletes overcome helicopter parents? How did the kids with NFL aspirations deal with their fathers who'd already made it? What kind of pressure did they have to overcome? What kind of pressure did the father who succeeded put on his son to be an athlete? Would the expectations be lower and the results greater if the father was an attorney or doctor? Was it better for the fathers to be overbearing, or borderline disinterested? My First Coach tells the compelling, real-life stories of some of the country's most famous quarterbacks and how they took advantage of or overcame their relationships with their fathers.
Author : John Wooden
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780071424912
An autobiographical portrait of UCLA basketball coach John Wooden highlighting his career and personal life and insights on how his top players shaped and changed the NBA.
Author : Jean-Michel Cousteau
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1426206836
For the first time since his death, he is near.ùFROM THE INTRODUCTION --Book Jacket.
Author : Dean Smith
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2002-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0375758801
For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success, having an impact both on the court and in the lives of countless young men. In A Coach’s Life, he looks back on the great games, teams, players, strategies, and rivalries that defined his career and, in a new final chapter, discusses his retirement from the game. The fundamentals of good basketball are the fundamentals of character—passion, discipline, focus, selflessness, and responsibility—and superlative mentor and coach Dean Smith imparts them all with equal authority.
Author : Bobby Bowden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439195986
In this New York Times bestseller, legendary coach Bobby Bowden gives readers an inside look at the path that led him to become one of college football’s most successful coaches. Coach Bobby Bowden was an icon of college football who ran his legendary, top-ranking program with a trademark southern charm. Here, Bowden gives fans and readers the behind-the-scenes story of his 55-year career and the path that helped him become one of college football's most successful coaches and patriarch of the sport's most famous coaching family. In this book, Bowden shares never-before-published details of the moments and events that have defined his life, including: * The tragic death of his grandson and son-in-law in a 2004 automobile accident. * The details of his retirement as FSU's coach at the end of the 2009 season.
Author : Keith Dunnavant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1501195441
The definitive portrait of Paul “Bear” Bryant, the most successful college football coach in history. Just five weeks after coaching his final football game for the University of Alabama, Paul “Bear” Bryant passed away. The impact he had on the state of Alabama and the entire college football world cannot be overstated. For twenty-five years as the head coach of the Crimson Tide, and thirteen years before that at Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M, Bear Bryant’s outsized personality and deep charisma made him the dominant figure in the world of college football, turning boys with ordinary talent but extraordinary heart into winners—both on the gridiron and off. At Alabama, Bear Bryant would go on to become the winningest coach of all time, achieving the best record in the country in both the 60s and 70s. He is the only coach to win national championships with both segregated teams and integrated ones. His secret lay not in any strategic brilliance he brought to the game, but in his gift for molding individual talents into a cohesive unit that could achieve far more than the sum of its parts would suggest. That ability made him a great coach, but to many, Bryant represented more than just a coach: He was everything a southern gentleman was supposed to be—tough, principled, charismatic, modest in victory yet quick to assume blame in defeat, and as mindful of where he’d come from as where he was going. Coach is not only about the man and his tremendous ability to succeed, it’s also a tribute to the South and the legacy Coach Bryant left behind. In a divisive era, Bryant gave Alabamians something to be proud of. And, he was simply the greatest football coach of all times.
Author : Zelig Pliskin
Publisher : Mesorah Publications
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780899063157
An inspiring, comprehensive overview of basic Torah principles from G-d's perspective, with insights and examples drawn from the author's extensive teaching and counseling experience. This is a book that will enlighten both the beginner and the scholar. It will help make us aware of G-d's presence to intensify spiritual experiences and elevate the mundane.
