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To Live and Dream: The Incredible Story of George Foreman Review

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(More customer reviews)It's great to know that someone still writes the kind of books that made me fall in love with sports and reading. McCoyd's inspirational and true tale of George Foreman's rise from the Houston ghettos to the Heavyweight Championship of the World is exciting, funny, and chock full of fantastic photographs. This book is highly recommended for children, teens, and boxing fans of all ages. "To Live and Dream" is a real knockout!

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In 1974, boxer George Foreman lost the heavyweight championship of the world. In 1994, at age 45, he won it back. Filled with action and photographs, this is the easy-to-read biography of one of America's greatest heroes. Despite some low points in his life, George Foreman has always succeeded in turning himself around. He transformed from teenage thug to Jobs Corpsman and Olympic gold medalist in the 1960s. Then, after becoming heavyweight champion of the world by routing Joe Frazier in 1973, George lost his title to Muhammad Ali in a stunning upset. Foreman was humiliated and eventually quit boxing, but he found happiness by going home to Houston to become a preacher and help underprivileged boys. George returned to the ring in 1987 and, at the age of 45, miraculously regained the heavyweight crown by knocking out Michael Moorer on November 5, 1994. In addition to winning fights, the two-time champion uses his great sense of humor to win people's hearts. Overweight throughout his comeback, George good-naturedly confronted fat jokes by saying he was on a "sea food diet -- whatever I see, I eat." With his shaved head and large stomach, Foreman looks like a cross between Santa Claus and Mr. Clean. But his image of himself is so good, he named all four of his sons "George."

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The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing Review

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(More customer reviews)Sports, recreation and travel libraries alike will find this collection of 25 of the best stories from the first ten years of Adventure Magazine features some extraordinary journeys. From hitchhiking across the Sahara and trekking with the last of Siberian nomads to kayaking the Grand Canyon, these are vivid, outstanding adventures highly recommended for any general lending library.

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National Geographic Adventure has published the best work by today's finest writers, and this tenth anniversary anthology assembles an elite corps of authors that includes Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Caputo, and two dozen others. These reporters have voyaged to the ends of the earth to bring back the decade's most thrilling, eccentric, and extraordinary tales. But the pieces collected here do more than paint a portrait of the world's most extreme and fascinating environments-they also explore important questions about adventure in the 21st century.These stories rocket readers across the roof of the world on the new high-speed railway in Tibet, describe the tension between Indian farmers and the sacred elephants besieging their villages, and introduce them to a shaman whom some believe can cure the most serious depressions. We meet the great Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Massoud-said to have been the finest guerrilla fighter since Ho Chi Minh-encounter a yeti with legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner, and much more.This is a wide-ranging collection for every road warrior and adventurer-armchair or otherwise-culled from the much acclaimed journal that in its first ten years has won millions of devoted readers and garnered more than a dozen prestigious prizes for excellence in journalism.

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Athletes Guide to Career Planning Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a terrific guide for your child to get a hold of what plans they need to have in place if they are truely serious about those claims that they want to be an athelete for a career. It will help you as a parent to figure out how serious they are, and if they are how to move forward towards planning and acting on helping them achieve their goal. It will help them look at goals and move forward with a purpose. I highly recommend this book.

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The Athlete's Guide to Career Planning is a straight forward guide that shows how to develop a ""game plan"" for life. High school, college, and elite athletes will find helpful tips for balancing school, work, and the demands of sport participation. Coaches and counselors will find valuable career and life skills information to share with their athletes.

The highly experienced authors, who have worked with thousands of athletes at all levels, provide specific tools to help readers make important transitions and life decisions during each stage in their athletic career.

With 46 easy-to-use worksheets, readers will learn how to

- identify physical and psychological transitions;- establish and use support systems to guide them through transitions and plan for the future;- relate scholastic and vocational choices to their personal identity;- balance the demands of sport and academics;- apply sport skills to career planning;- identify and match their skills, interests, and values with career goals; and - succeed at the job search process, including writing resumes and cover letters and preparing for interviews.

The Athlete's Guide to Career Planning also features case studies of athletes that help readers understand important issues about athletic life and transitions.

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To Win and Die in Dixie: The Birth of the Modern Golf Swing and the Mysterious Death of Its Creator Review

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(More customer reviews)A friend recommended this book to me, and I wasn't sure I would like it, but, man, am I glad I opened it up. This is one of the best stories I've read in years. I literally could not put it down. Not only is it a great true-crime mystery, it's a history lesson and social commentary. This is the best book about a southern city since "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." Don't let the cover or subtitle fool you: it's a golf book the way "Seabiscuit" was a horse book. Go get it. You'll love it.

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Running With the Legends: Training and Racing Insights from 21 Great Runners Review

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(More customer reviews)I would agree with the other reviewers that this is by no means a training manual (ala Daniels or Coe). However, that doesn't change the fact that it is a very enjoyable book to read, covering legends of the past as well as more recent champions. If you are interested in marathoning, this book is particularly good, as most of the runners covered are marathoners.
Whilst the training plans will be of little use, I find this book a great motivator, and that's what every runner needs!

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Coaching Mental Excellence: It Does Matter Whether You Win or Lose Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is concise, written in language that a layman can understand, and is results oriented rather than all theoretical information. It is a great tool for a coach regardless of the sport. The authors understand coaches, the role coaches play in the development of athletes and the value of the coaching profession. That was a refreshing change from so many books written by people on athletic topics who have no understanding of coaches, what they do, and what they go through to do their profession.
Topics covered include:
Team Dynamics
Effective motivation
Building real confidence
Developing concentration
How to maintain composure
Conducting effective practice sessions
Also covered are topics just for coaches such as dealing with burnout and balancing family life with the coaching profession.
Great book!
Kevin Sivils - author of Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball: Bench Coaching for Success
Game Strategies and Tactics for Basketball: Bench Coaching for Success

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A highly readable survey of the major responsibilities, opportunities and challenges involved in coaching today's athlete. It emphasizes the mental techniques known through the latest research in sport psychology to enhance performance and enjoyment in sports.

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Legend's Legacy: The Hand at our Shoulder Review

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(More customer reviews)I enjoyed Legend's Legacy. If you are a bird hunter or a lover of hunting dogs this book would be a worthy addition to your bookshelf. If you are a northwoods deer hunter like myself you will not find so much common ground here but the values expressed are of the same foundation.

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In stories of mentorship as affecting as The Old Man and the Boy come moments that we must never forget, when we learned as much from woods and waters as from a spelling book-not only in kind and gentle remembrances, but in intuitive vignettes, present and future. Legend's Legacy stands unparalleled as an affecting commemoration of the most endearing and enduring aspects of our sporting traditions, and an inspiring tribute to those who cared, who taught us then, and guide us still.

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