FOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football
coach Jimmy Johnson--the first to win both a college football
championship and a Super Bowl--shares his long-awaited, intimate,
no-regrets memoir recounting his extraordinary life and insightful
lessons on winning, at every level.
Hall of Fame football coach Jimmy Johnson's house isn't on the way to
anything. Yet, his private sanctuary on the Florida Keys' Islamorada
islands is a popular destination to which college and professional
coaches, general managers, and team owners regularly trek to seek
advice--how to build a positive team culture, draft elite players,
balance work and family life, and lead a team to win. Why? Because Jimmy
Johnson has done it all--rising through the college coaching ranks to
lead the University of Miami Hurricanes to a national championship,
winning two consecutive Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys, and
handling public triumphs while dealing with private adversity. Now,
written with veteran sports journalist Dave Hyde, Johnson shares a
candid account of his life experiences that have turned him into a
legend in the coaching world.
From his early days on the college football fields at Louisiana Tech to
his arrival as the Cowboys' coach in 1989, Swagger traces the history
of Johnson's career, and his lifelong mission to win. His
larger-than-life personality and hard-driving, tough-talking coaching
style led him to become one of only six coaches in NFL history to win
back-to-back Super Bowls. Swagger shows the behind-the-scenes details
of his professional conflict with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his
personal revelations following his mother's death and his son's struggle
with addiction. It reveals Johnson's formula for winning, including his
criteria for identifying talent, his core beliefs, how he replaced
legendary coaches like Tom Landry and Don Shula, coached stars from a
young Troy Aikman to an aging Dan Marino, and established the
ever-elusive sense of "culture" that every team leader hopes to achieve.
More than a highlight reel, Swagger reveals the hard-won lessons Jimmy
Johnson has learned both as a man and as a coach through a lifetime
dedicated to excellence.
