Coach: The Greatest Teachers in Sports and Their Lessons for Us All

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. . Lszl Polgr: 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.