They Call Me Coach

They Call Me Coach
Author: John Wooden
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780071424912

An autobiographical portrait of UCLA basketball coach John Wooden highlighting his career and personal life and insights on how his top players shaped and changed the NBA.

Don't Call Me Coach

Don't Call Me Coach
Author: Phil Martelli
Publisher: Camino Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781933822068

Don't Call Me Coach presents Phil Martelli at his compelling and captivating best, as he finally puts into print the mantra of his memorable speeches. In fact one of America's most colorful, outspoken, and successful coaches, Martelli compresses his three decades of experience into a ten?point ?lesson plan for life? that will benefit anyone, regardless of the challenges.

How to Be Like Coach Wooden

How to Be Like Coach Wooden
Author: Pat Williams
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2006-03-07
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0757303919

John Wooden is an American icon. Since he announced his retirement thirty years ago, “Coach” remains one of our country's most popular and heroic figures. What John Wooden accomplished as basketball coach at UCLA will never be repeated—eighty-eight victories in a row, ten national championships—but what makes his legacy even more amazing is how he did it: with honor, integrity and grace. In his research for How to Be Like Coach Wooden, Pat Williams recounts well over 800 interviews. The result is an inspiring motivational biography about a great hero of basketball and one of the most amazing leaders in history. How to Be Like Coach Wooden is the next dynamic book in the How to Be Like "character biography" series, which focuses on drawing out important lessons from the lives of great men and women. In this book, readers will learn from Coach Wooden, a beacon of honesty, goodness and faith. Wooden cared about winning in basketball, but he cared more about winning in life.

They Call Me Killer

They Call Me Killer
Author: Brian Kilrea
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010-10-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0470677600

An intimate, humorous look at Brian Kilrea's 60-year career in junior hockey With more wins than any coach in junior hockey history, and a personality as large as his winning record, Brian Kilrea is more than a hockey legend, he's one of the most beloved figures in the game. With veteran sportswriter, James Duthie, Kilrea gives fans a rink-side view of his early days as a player with the Red Wings and what it was like to score the first-ever goal in the history of the L.A. Kings; as well as his role as a coach for the Ottawa 67s and as a mentor to young stars of the future. With stories and comments from famous NHLers who played for Killer, including Bryan Trottier and Dennis Potvin, as well as coaches, trainers, and general managers, readers will get a taste of Kilrea's hardnosed coaching style, as well as the knowledge and dedication that has made him last so long. Anecdotes from NHLers like Mike Peca, Gary Roberts, Doug Wilson, Brian Campbell, Darren Pang, and many others An inside look at the day-to-day life in the world of junior hockey, including brutal practices, broken curfews, trades, and tirades With a Foreword by lifelong friend, Don Cherry, They Call Me Killer is a fascinating, real-life look at the world of junior hockey and the man who has meant so much to the sport.

Call Me Coach

Call Me Coach
Author: Steve Wolfe
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2005-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1594332347

Steve Wolfe, fresh out of college, comes to the little town of Homer, Alaska and begins his wrestling coach career. Homer, Alaska is at the end of the road. Coach soon finds that Alaska is full of unbelievable characters--kids and adults alike--students, teachers, and neighbors. Coach's interactions with these characters make for nonstop humor and inspiration. Call Me Coach is a story of rare experiences of struggle, failure, but ultimately triumph. Alaskans and wrestlers have a common spirit--the spirit of adventure and overcoming all adversity. Call Me Coach is a humorous story of motivation and the spirit of Alaska and wrestling.

We Still Call Him Coach

We Still Call Him Coach
Author: Doris Hinson Pieroth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Basketball coaches
ISBN: 9781929478675

Sports biography of Hall of Fame Seattle Pacific Head Basketball Coach Les Habegger.

They Call Me Big House

They Call Me Big House
Author: Clarence E. Gaines
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Big House. For nearly half a century in college basketball circles, no other introduction was necessary. Clarence E. "Big House" Gaines became head coach at Winston-Salem Teachers College in 1946. He was not just the head basketball coach. He was the head coach. Period. He coached every sport the school offered -- football, basketball, track, tennis, boxing. He taught in the classroom, too, And all for $2,400 a year. He slept in the men's dormitory and ate discounted meals in the cafeteria. How good were his teams in those early days? About as good as you'd expect at a predominantly women's college whose cupboard of male athletes was bare immediately after World War II.

Wooden on Leadership

Wooden on Leadership
Author: John Wooden
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2005-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0071467106

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A compelling look inside the mind and powerful leadership methods of America’s coaching legend, John Wooden "Team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, determination. . . . Acquire and keep these traits and success should follow." --Coach John Wooden John Wooden’s goal in 41 years of coaching never changed; namely, to get maximum effort and peak performance from each of his players in the manner that best served the team. Wooden on Leadership explains step-by-step how he pursued and accomplished this goal. Focusing on Wooden’s 12 Lessons in Leadership and his acclaimed Pyramid of Success, it outlines the mental, emotional, and physical qualities essential to building a winning organization, and shows you how to develop the skill, confidence, and competitive fire to “be at your best when your best is needed”--and teach your organization to do the same. Praise for Wooden on Leadership: “What an all-encompassing Pyramid of Success for leadership! Coach Wooden’s moral authority and brilliant definition of success encompass all of life. How I admire his life’s work and concept of what it really means to win!” --Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness “Wooden On Leadership offers valuable lessons no matter what your endeavor. 'Competitive Greatness' is our goal and that of any successful organization. Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success is where it all starts.” --Jim Sinegal, president & CEO, Costco

They Call Me Coach

They Call Me Coach
Author: Bernard Cullen Ritchen
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1512729558

For over thirty years, Bob Jenkins had been defined by wins and losses in college basketball. As a highly successful Division I head basketball coach, he had reached the pinnacle of his profession. Then one day, without warning, he finds himself being dismissed from coaching by the athletic director of the university. He is angry and confused about how to navigate this turn of events and what to do with the rest of his life. His wife, Sarah, feels that God is moving in his life and leading him in another direction. Bob feels to the contrary that God has forsaken him. Against his better judgment and with pressure from Sarah and their twin daughters, he retires and moves to Florida to begin again. Then one day while working out at the local YMCA he happens upon a Special Olympics basketball team practicing. The thought of God leading him in another direction resurfaces. He will coach again.