Author : Alric Karvell Bailey
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
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ISBN : 1365923096
Author : Alric Karvell Bailey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2017-05-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781545495629
This book explores the correlation between life and the game of basketball. It describes my life experiences as a player and coach along with a few ideas from coaches that I admire. Through these experiences, I developed core values such as perseverance, respect, and confidence that can be applied in any leadership capacity. Coaching and leaders are not always just in basketball. This book can be of help to anyone in any sport or any business profession. Come and experience things as I see them. This is a guide to effective leadership and coaching!
Author : Pat Conroy
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0553898183
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life—and a crucible for becoming his own man. With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966–67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated. Praise for My Losing Season “A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written.”—The Washington Post Book World “A wonderfully rich memoir that you don’t have to be a sports fan to love.”—Houston Chronicle “A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Here’s ample proof that losers always tell the best stories.”—Newsweek “In My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it.”—New York Daily News “Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.”—Boston Herald
Author : Chris Mullin
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781457508240
Inner Game Basketball grew out of conversations between Chris Mullin and Tom Mitchell about players, coaches, parents and the game of basketball. The book is written specifically for players who want to gain a competitive edge and a better understanding of the habits and behaviors that are at the heart of an athlete's success: confidence, communication, work ethic, teamwork, practice and concentration. It is also useful for parents and coaches who want to help players develop their mental game. Inner Game Basketball is not about the Xs and Os of basketball. You will not learn how to run a play, shoot a free throw, or break a full court press. Rather, you will learn about the values within the game of basketball that help you become a better player on the court and a better person in life. Through very basic and easy-to-understand messages and exercises, you will be able to put the things you learn from this book into practice immediately. Have fun reading Inner Game Basketball and take the time to let the messages sink in. Practice the drills at the end of each chapter and strive for personal mastery both on and off the court!
Author : Shannon Beasley
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
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ISBN : 9780997492545
Motivational book written by Life-Coach ans Motivational Speaker, Shannon Beasley Taitt which relays life-changing lessons she learned from her mother, who often taught her life lessons through the game of basketball.
Author : John Hansberry
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
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ISBN : 9781724291219
This is an auto-biographical look at the life of John Hansberry and his basketball career thus far. There are nine chapters that have distinct life lessons. All people can take some ideas away from this book to help better their lives, in a business, personal or spiritual way.
Author : Colin Stevens
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1645152006
Something we appreciate most about sports are the lessons that we learn in competition that can be applied to everyday life. In Coachable, Colin makes several parallels between basketball and life, not just any part of life but the deepest most foundational part of life""the spiritual part. In this book the reader will gain understanding of the game of basketball and how leaders and coaches impact their teams and their organizations. Fundamental principles like teamwork, defense, and leadership will be unpacked and discussed on how the best coaches and teams operate and why they are so good. We all have people who we learn from. People who have coached us and taught us in more than just basketball. The people we learn from and follow are the people who shape us into the coach, parent, friend, colleague, and person that we become. There is no greater coach that we can learn from than God himself. He created us, he knows us, and he knows how we can grow and develop into what he has called us to be . . . people who love him and want to impact this world for the better. So dive in to the thoughts and secrets of some of the best in the game. Then open your heart and your mind to the idea that just as you want to develop players and create a fantastic team and organization, God wants to develop you into a major contributor on his team.
Author : Ben Detrick
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1647003008
A vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes The Joy of Basketball celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book's focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing. Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.
Author : Reuben A. Buford May
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081479596X
May tells the absorbing story of the hopes and struggles of one high school basketball team, the Northeast High School Knights in Northeast, Georgia, and the powerful role that a basketball team can play in keeping young African American kids straight, away from street-life, focused on completing high school, and possibly even attending college.
Author : Bill Simmons
Publisher : ESPN
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0345520106
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
