Sally Jenkins

Pat Head Summitt

The former head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team describes how her upbringing helped her to develop a balanced coaching style and recounts her recent personal battle against early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

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"Sportswriter and columnist Sally Jenkins spent her whole life literally stamping great coaches and athletes down in letters. But somewhere along the line, she realized, they had begun to write her. Their example could shape her into something better if she paid attention. What she learned from great athletes and coaches is that champions are the product of their own work. This book is an effort to catalog the inner qualities that allow ordinary people to overcome pressure, elevate their performances and find champion identities. GREATNESS IN PRACTICE uses breath-takingly dramatic sports anecdotes featuring the elite coaches and play-makers Steve Kerr, Bill Belichick, Pat Summit, Peyton Manning, and Jill Ellis, Michael Phelps, and Andre Agassi, among others, to illustrate 7 principles which underlie great decision-making. The seven principles (conditioning, practice, discipline, candor, culture, resilience, intention) are each broken down and explored in their own chapters through long-form sports stories. This book is the one stop shop for anyone wanting to learn how to effectively lead and achieve. From sports fans to businesspeople and everyone in between, there is something for any reader ready to elevate their greatness practices"--

What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life

The Right Call

The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation

The Real All Americans

The head coach of the University of Tennessee women's basketball team offers a motivational program for success based on twelve principles that can be applied to any situation

Reach for the Summit

John Stauffer

In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. Knight's life story mirrors the little-known story of class struggle in the South--and it shatters the image of the Confederacy as a unified front against the Union.

The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy

The State of Jones

Pat Summitt

A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

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Lance Armstrong

In 1999, Lance Armstrong made world headlines with the most stunning comeback in the history of sport, winning the Tour de France in the fastest ever time after battling against life-threatening testicular cancer just eighteen months previously. His first

Every Second Counts

Funny Cide Team

Describes how an unheralded New York horse--trained by a journeyman, ridden by a hard-luck jockey, and owned by a tiny stable founded by a group of high-school buddies--beat the champions to win two of the three Triple Crown races.

How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Blue Bloods--and Won

Funny Cide

Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she broke records, winning more games than any NCAA team in basketball history. She coached an undefeated season, co-captained the first women's Olympic team, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and was named Sports Illustrated 'Sportswoman of the Year'. She owed her coaching success to her personal struggles and triumphs. She learned to be tough from her strict, demanding father. Motherhood taught her to balance that rigidity with communication and kindness. She was a role model for the many women she coached; 74 of her players have become coaches. Pat's life took a shocking turn in 2011, when she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, an irreversible brain condition that affects 5 million Americans. Despite her devastating diagnosis, she led the Vols to win their sixteenth SEC championship in March 2012. Pat continued to be a fighter, facing this new challenge the way she's faced every other--with hard work, perseverance, and a sense of humor.

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Non solo ciclismo. Il mio ritorno alla vita

The #1 New York Times bestseller from the cancer survivor who became a four-time Tour de France champ. "In 1996, young cycling phenom Armstrong discovered he had testicular cancer. In 1999, he won the Tour de France. Now he's a new father and a memoirist: with pluck, humility and verve, this volume covers his early life, his rise through the endurance sport world and his medical difficulties. The book features a disarming and spotless prose style, one far above par for sports memoirs." - Publishers Weekly

Mi Vuelta a la Vida (My Journey Back to Life)

" Vous avez sûrement envie de savoir comment Lance Armstrong est devenu un Américain célèbre, un exemple pour le monde entier, comment il a vaincu son cancer et gagné le Tour de France, une course de 3 686 kilomètres considérée comme l'événement sportif le plus exténuant de la planète. Vous avez envie que je vous raconte mon ascension lyrique des cols alpins, ma conquête poétique des Pyrénées. Mais le Tour, dans tout ça, c'est la petite histoire... Honnêtement, le cancer est la meilleure chose qui me soit arrivée. Je ne sais pas pourquoi je suis tombé malade, mais je sais que cette maladie a opéré des merveilles, et pour rien au monde je ne voudrais avoir été épargné. Que ce soit bien clair : il y a deux Lance Armstrong. Avant et après. D'une certaine manière, le Lance d'autrefois est mort et, en échange, il a reçu une seconde vie... " Document choc, Il n'y a pas que le vélo dans la vie est une leçon de courage et d'espoir. Celle d'un champion qui, plus que son exploit sportif, veut nous faire partager avec une rare intensité sa victoire dans la plus terrible des épreuves : son combat pour la vie.

Il n'y a pas que le vélo dans la vie

For use in schools and libraries only. The champion cyclist and author of It's Not About the Bike continues the inspirational story of his life and accomplishments in the wake of his recovery from testicular cancer and describes what fuels his pursuit of personal and professional success, his

Contradicts the myth of a unified Confederacy during the Civil War, recounting the efforts of Newton Knight, the Jones County, Mississippi, farmer who organized his community to fight against the Confederates.

The author tackles the myth that women do not understand the sport of football, presenting a collection of essays that includes "A Babe's Glossary of Football Terms" and "Stupid Female Questions That Make Perfect Sense"

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