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Every great sports coach is a life coach. This book identifies 150 outstanding coaches who have much to teach us about optimising our performance, our character, and our lives. Coaches are critical to achieving top performance from individual athletes and teams. As with the competitors themselves, the performance of the coaches is measurable and teachable. Coach profiles the 150 most successful coaches of all time - in every major sport - providing biographical background while lasering-in on their most relevant ideas and methods. Rich in quotations, each profile ends with a prescriptive list of takeaways that readers can apply not only to the sports they love but also to their lives and careers. Competitive sports are all about performance, and because all sporting competition involves scoring, ""performance"" is lifted out of the realm of subjective opinion and into the objective domain of numbers. This book will teach, and it will also settle arguments. Among the 150 coaches profiled are: . Bill Belichick: Take-no-prisoners coach of the New England Patriots, with five Super Bowl appearances in twelve years. . Brad Gilbert: Tennis coach, author of Winning Ugly, whose most famous student, Andre Agassi, said, ""Brad taught me how to play tennis, period."" . Marian Vajda: She is the coach behind Novak Djokovic and has been called the 'puppet master' behind Djokovic's historic-making 43-match winning streak. . Pat Summitt: As coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols women's basketball team from 1974 to 2012, Summitt racked up 1,098 wins, the most in college basketball. . Vince Lombardi: Although he coached the Green Bay Packers for just seven years, he made it very much his team, winning five league championships and history's first two Super Bowls. . László Polgár: The great Hungarian chess coach who believed that, while only geniuses win at chess, 'geniuses are not born, but made'. He set out to make them. Guided by the numbers - for all competitive sports keep score - this book finds the teachable moments, settling some arguments while starting others, in delineating the lives and careers of coaches who win with brains, heart, and the force of character. AUTHOR: Justin Spizman is an award-winning, best-selling author who has collaborated with five-time Heavyweight Boxing Champion Evander Holyfield, NCCA Championship-winning basketball coach Jim Valvano, former Denver Broncos GM Ted Sundquist, and sports agent Molly Fletcher (""the female Jerry Maguire""), among others. SELLING POINTS: . A compulsively readable sports book with a dose of self-help . Brief, engaging profiles of 150 legendary coaches from a variety of sports, with lessons from their coaching that you can apply to your own life . Written by an award-winning sportswriter who has collaborated with greats like Evander Holyfield . Great coffee-break reading: can be enjoyed one or two profiles at a time . The emphasis on actionable lessons will appeal to readers of Tim Ferriss, Ryan Holiday, and other popular business and self-improvement writers.

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. . . Spizman has captured the very definition of what it means to be called Coach and then conveys this through the personal stories of some of the most widely respected and successful examples to have ever carried the title. His book will make you reflect upon your own life's influences and the many coaches that may have helped you along the way. I know it did for me-- thanks, COACH. --Ted Sundquist, General Manager of the Denver Broncos (2002-2008) Justin Spizman's new book, Coach, is a wonderful collection of the best coaches of our time, their inspiring stories, and a useful application of their greatest teachings. This book is a dynamite assembly of the historic coaches that architected their sports and left a legacy that has withstood the test of time. --Molly Fletcher, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and former sports agent CNN and ESPN dubbed the female Jerry Maguire. Behind every great athlete and every winning team is a great coach. And deep within the heart and mind of every great coach is an invincible genius for leadership. Whether you are a sports fan, an active competitor, or a leader--aspiring or established--of any high-stakes enterprise, you will find much to amaze and inspire you in Justin Spizman's compulsively readable treasury of the consummate teachers, mentors, gurus, and leaders we call Coach. --Alan Axelrod, BusinessWeek bestselling author of Patton on Leadership: Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare and Elizabeth I, CEO: Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire.

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Justin Spizman is an award-winning, best-selling author who has collaborated with five-time Heavyweight Boxing Champion Evander Holyfield, NCCA Championship–winning basketball coach Jim Valvano, former Denver Broncos GM Ted Sundquist, and sports agent Molly Fletcher (“the female Jerry Maguire”), among others

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