Research Catalog

Title

Winning words : classic quotes from the world of sports / Michael Benson.

Author

Benson, Michael.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Taylor Trade Pub., ©2008.

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Details

Description

x, 220 pages; 19 cm

Summary

This book collects the most inspirational quotes from the world of sports, arranged in categories from "ability" to "Zen" - quotes that can be applied to everyday life as much as to athletic pursuits. From golfer Babe Zaharias's bold challenge to her competitors - "The Babe is here. Who wants to come in second?" - to the classic motivational pronouncements of Vince Lombardi, Winning Words can be a quick reference for a leader in need of inspiration or a meditation for a competitor facing a daunting challenge. Interspersed with sidebar profiles of some of the most legendary figures in sports, nearly 1,000 quotes comprise this stirring collection of wisdom from the annals of sports. (Publisher).

Subject

• Sports > Quotations, maxims, etc
• Sports

Genre/Form

Quotations.

Contents

Ability -- Accomplishments -- Adulthood -- Adversity -- Age -- John Wooden (Profile) -- Aggressiveness -- Anger -- Attention to detail -- Attitude -- Joe Paterno (Profile) -- Awards -- Awareness -- Bad habit -- Beginnings -- Challenges -- Champions -- Change -- Bill Belichick (Profile) -- Character -- Vince Lombardi (Profile) -- Charity -- Cheating -- Chemical dependency -- Coaching -- Command -- Commitment -- Communication -- Compassion -- Compensation -- Competition -- Complacency -- Concentration -- Confidence -- Bill Cartwright (Profile) -- Mike Krzyzewski (Profile) -- Isiah Thomas (Profile) -- Confrontation -- Control -- Courage -- Crises -- Criticism, Response to -- Curiosity -- Dancing -- Death -- Dedication -- Defense -- Delivering bad news -- Desire -- Details -- Determination -- Discipline -- Discrimination -- Divine intervention -- Doing what's best for the team -- Doubleheaders -- Dreams -- Education -- Efficiency -- Effort -- Ego -- Element of surprise -- Endurance -- Excellence -- Excuses -- Rick Piting (Profile) -- Execution -- Expectations -- Experience -- Explanations -- Failure -- Fair play -- Faith -- Faithfulness -- Fans -- Fear -- Flexibility -- Focus -- Fraternization -- Friendship -- Fun -- Fundamentals -- The future -- Generosity -- Genius -- The Gipper -- Knute Rockne, 1988-1931 (Profile) -- Giving your best -- Goals -- Golf -- A good catcher -- Greatness -- Great social experiments -- Guts -- Handling stress -- Heart -- Hell -- Home-field advantage -- Honesty -- Honor -- Hope -- Humanity -- Human spirit -- Humility -- Humor -- Hustle -- Illness -- Imagination -- Independence -- Individual effort -- Individuality -- Injury -- Innovation -- Inside-out compliment -- Integrity -- Intelligence -- Intimidation -- Job security -- Justice -- Laziness -- Leadership -- Learning -- Learning from defeat -- Paul Brown (Profile) -- Leisure -- Life -- Limitations -- The load -- Losing -- Love -- Loving the game -- Connie Mack (Profile) -- Luck -- Magic -- Babe Didrickson Zaharias (Profile) -- Making mistakes -- Al Arbour (Profile) -- Management -- Maturity -- Mental health -- Mental toughness -- Miracles -- Misery -- Mistakes -- Money -- Morale -- Motivation -- Mystical analogies -- Tommy Lasorda (Profile) -- John Madden (Profile) -- Negativity -- 9/11 -- Noise -- The North Side -- Nostalgia -- Nutrition -- Obsession -- Obstacles -- Jim Abbott (Profile) -- The off-season -- Rogers Hornsby (Profile) -- One step at a time -- Open mind -- Opportunity -- Herb Brooks (Profile) -- Organization -- Over-coaching -- Overconfidence -- Overthinking -- Pain -- Parents -- Passion -- The past -- Patience -- Patriotism -- Perfection -- Performance -- Perseverence -- Persistance -- Perspective -- Al McGuire (Profile) -- Philosophy -- Poignant proverbs -- Popularity -- Potential -- Practice -- "Bear" Bryant (Profile) -- Bud Wilkinson (Profile) -- Praise -- Prejudice -- Preset agendas -- Press relations -- Pressure -- Pride -- Priorities -- Priviledge -- Procrastination -- Prognostication -- Psychology -- Publicity -- Quitting -- Reading -- Recruiting -- Religion -- Reputation -- Resiliency -- R-E-S-P-E-C-T -- Responsibility -- Retaliation -- Retirement -- Rights of others -- Bill Bradley (Profile) -- Risks -- The road -- Role models -- Rules -- Cal Ripken, Jr. (Profile) -- Sacrifice -- School spirit -- Second place -- Secret to good coaching -- Billy Donavan (Profile) -- Lou Holtz (Profile) -- Joe Lapchick (Profile) -- Bill Walsh (Profile) -- Security -- Seizing the moment -- Self-discipline -- Self-improvement -- Simple but not easy -- Soul -- Spirit -- Sportsmanship -- Leo Durocher (Profile) -- Statistics -- Strategy -- Street smarts -- Stress -- Success -- Surrender -- Taking -- Talent -- Teachers -- Team confidence -- Teamwork -- Red Holtzman (Profile) -- Pat Riley (Profile) -- Joe Torre (Profile) -- Temperament -- Thinking -- Three questions -- Ties -- Time -- Too Much Info Dept. -- Tough schedules -- Trust -- Truth -- Underdogs -- Values -- Variety -- War -- Weaknesses -- Will -- Winners -- Winning -- Wisdom -- Work -- Working together -- Worrying -- Phil Jackson (Profile) -- Youth -- Zen.

ISBN

• 9781589793477
• 1589793471

LCCN

2008009983

OCLC

• ocn213407330
• 213407330
• SCSB-1505217

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library