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Do you have a child who loves playing football? Have you wondered how you are going to protect them in the sport while making sure they develop properly? How do you find the right people to teach, train, and nurture your child? Canaan McDonald had that problem when he found that his six-year-old son loved the game more than he did, but more importantly had the raw skills to back it up.

Are you looking to learn the core elements of coaching in order to help take your performance, and, where applicable, that of your team or others around you, to the next level? Is your goal to coach in the areas of business, sport, personal development, or any other area of life?

Winning starts long before the game begins. A renowned coach Jack Johnson pulls back the curtain on what it truly takes to rise, rebuild, and win; not just in sports, but in life itself. Drawing from over 60 years of experience on the field, Coach Johnson reveals how the same principles that build great athletes can also shape extraordinary people. From locker-room lessons to moments of personal challenge, this book captures the essence of what it means to compete with heart, lead with integrity, and push through adversity when everything seems stacked against you.

An unputdownable, must-have sports book for every LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, and NBA fan. June 19, 2016: the greatest moment in Cleveland sports history, when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals and broke the Cleveland Curse. It was the triumph fans had been waiting fifty-two...

Darren Blood is an embarrassment to the coaching profession: unrelenting, authoritative, and devoid of people skills. Twice fired and still shaking off a scandal, Blood’s career seems over—until his friend, university president and emotional intelligence expert Dr. James Harding, hires him to coach the struggling women’s basketball program at Virginia Central State University. Faced with a legacy of defeat, Blood must confront his flaws and embrace EQ strategies to turn around the Lady Foxhounds.

For nearly fifty years, a high school coach stood on practice fields, in locker rooms, on buses, and along fence lines where the real lessons were learned. This book is a collection of true stories from those years. They aren't about schemes or systems. They're about people—players, parents, principals, cheerleaders, bands, and the moments that shaped young lives long after the final whistle.

""There are regular lives, and then there is Shikhar Dhawan's life. He has never given excuses. He has seen highs and lows and always risen above them. That journey needed to be told."" -Anshita Gupta, CEO, Da One Group 'One evening, when I was headed for dinner with my British girlfriend Ellen...

Have you ever imagined how the world’s elite sports men and women perform to extraordinary levels when they compete at the biggest events? It’s as if they were born with an immune system that prevents nerves, anxieties, and a lack of self-belief ever surfacing. It’s Time to Start Winning is the work of NLP Master practitioner and Trainer Simon Capon. He has worked on the creation of a simple model that’s both easy to learn and master.

In Brian Cagneey's The Seven Laws of Coaching: Powerful Coaching Skills That Will Predict Your Team's Success, you'll unlock the coaching genius inside of you. By answering the crucial coaching questions and developing genuine leadership and integrity, you can instill these attributes in those around you. When you put these proven steps and strategies to use, people will follow you willingly - because you've shown yourself to be an excellent coach!

Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL's most dominant team, but also - and by far - the most secretive. How did they achieve and sustain greatness - and what were the costs? In It's Better to Be Feared, Seth Wickersham, one of the country's finest long form and investigative sportswriters, tells the full, behind-the-scenes story of the Patriots, capturing the brilliance, ambition, and vanity that powered and ultimately unraveled them. 

Athletes desire—and deserve—a more substantive expression of the Christian faith in the context of sport, but they don’t know what it looks like or where to turn to learn more. Author Brian Smith shares his story as an athlete and coach, and his experience working with high-level athletes in the last decade to help listeners better understand how to integrate faith and sport.

Are you a college golfer looking to refine your game and unlock your full potential? Or perhaps you're a high school golfer with dreams of playing at the collegiate level. The world of golf holds infinite possibilities. However, along with those possibilities come challenges: the competition is fierce, the road to mastery is complex, and the mental game can be just as tough as the physical one.

Run Faster Marathons: The Proven Path to PR shares the essential concepts marathon runners need to incorporate into their training to achieve year-over-year progress, enjoyment, and success. Go beyond just following a cookie-cutter plan and finally learn how to train like an athlete. Run Faster Marathons will teach you to run with confidence.

From a New York Times bestselling author, a deeply reported account of how the USC Trojan football team captivated the sporting world in the 2000s. The University of Southern California received thousands of calls, emails and letters in 2001, after hiring former NFL coach, Pete Carroll, to...

No college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and '70s, capped by a run of ten NCAA championships in twelve seasons and an eighty-eight-game winning streak, records that stand to this day. Wooden also became a renowned motivational speaker and writer, revered for his "Pyramid of Success." The portrait that emerges from Davis's remarkable biography is of a man in full, whose life story still resonates today.

Not just another book about how to play pickleball, Pickleball Mindset dives deep into how to think on the court. Coauthored by Dayne Gingrich, top senior professional pickleball player and renowned mental performance coach, and Jill Martin, an attorney turned personal trainer and pickleball fanatic, this book follows their year-long coaching relationship in which Jill seeks to become mentally dominant on and off the court.

For the countless basketball fans who were spellbound by the Los Angeles Lakers’ 2003–2004 high-wire act, this book is a rare and phenomenal treat. In The Last Season, Lakers coach Phil Jackson draws on his trademark honesty and insight to tell the whole story of the season that proved to be...

How to Be Better At Basketball in 21 Days: The Ultimate Guide to Drastically Improving Your Basketball Shooting, Passing and Dribbling Skills, teaches you using precision drills and specific exercises to stack skill after skill. Using Wilson’s special core philosophy, this thorough system will improve your form, develop new skills, and help you challenge even the most advanced players.

La programmazione mentale e fisica, sono due componenti, che se ben allenate, con sinergia, hanno effetti davvero straordinari, che permettono, a chi le pratica...

A book of lessons in baseball enlightenment from three-time MLB Manager of the Year, Joe Maddon. "A perfect baseball book, as invaluable as it is unique." ―Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy LP: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood No one sees baseball like Joe Maddon. He sees it...