Coaches build winning teams and enable each athlete they mentor, guide,
cajole, and nurture to achieve top performance. More than this, every
great sports coach is first and last a life coach. Sportswriter Justin
Spizman identifies and profiles 168 of the greatest coaches and managers
of all time. They have much to teach us about optimizing our
performance, our character, and our lives.
Coach: The Greatest Teachers in Sports and Their Lessons for Us All
profiles coaches in every significant sport, from football, basketball,
baseball, and hockey to gymnastics, skating, rowing, rugby, soccer, and
more. From field to court, diamond, rink, and pitch, the big leagues to
the Olympics, college, and high school, Coach delivers the most
teachable moments and methods--for play, for competition, and for life.
Rich in quotations, each profile ends with lessons for top performance
on and off the field, in and beyond the arena.
Justin Spizman tracks all the relevant stats--for every sport keeps
score--but he seeks first and last to disclose the mind, the heart, and
the force of character that drive each of the indispensable men and
women behind the world's most envied and admired athletes. His profiles
range from the likes of Cardinals manager Tony La Russa (already an MLB
legend), to Aimee Boorman and Cecile Canqueteau-Landi (who both coached
gymnastics phenom Simone Biles), Bill Belichick (the take-no-prisoners
field general of the New England Patriots), Pat Summitt (who racked up
1,098 wins as coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball
team from 1974 to 2012), Marián Vajda (the coach behind tennis titan
Novak Djokovic), and David Leadbetter (golf guru to champions Kathy
Baker, Nick Faldo, and Michelle Wie).
