A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring
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After eight books, many of them bestsellers, “A Game Plan for Life “was the one closest to John Wooden’s heart: a moving and inspirational guide to the power of mentorship. The first half focuses on the people who helped foster the values that carried Wooden through an incredibly successful and famously principled career, including his father, his college coach, his wife, Mahatma Gandhi, and Mother Teresa. The second half is built around interviews with some of the many people he mentored over the years, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton. Their testimony takes readers inside the lessons Wooden taught to generations of players, bringing out the very best in them not just as athletes but as human beings. In all, this is an inspiring primer on how to achieve success without sacrificing principles and how to build one of the most productive and rewarding relationships available to any athlete, businessperson, teacher, or parent-that of mentor and protege.
Praise for “A Game Plan for Life”
“My time learning from Coach Wooden-sitting and asking him questions, soaking up his answers-has provided some of the most significant lessons in my life. Any way that you can be mentored by a giant like him, including reading “A Game Plan for Life,” will provide great lessons for you, too.”-Pat Summitt, women’s basketball coach, University of Tennessee
“Few coaches have affected their players’ lives so fully as John Wooden, so here’s a natural question: Who mentored the mentor? Well, John Wooden is glad we asked.”-Bob Costas
About the Author :
Don Yaeger has contributed to A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring as an author.
Don Yaeger is a former associate editor for “Sports Illustrated”.
He is the author of seven books and coauthor of the “New York Times”
bestseller “Under the Tarnished Dome” and the critically acclaimed
“Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL”.
John Wooden has contributed to A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring as an author.
Author Profiles
John Wooden (1910-2010), guided the UCLA Bruins to ten NCAA basketball championships over a 12-year period, including four perfect seasons and an 88-game winning streak. He was named ESPN’s “Greatest Coach of the 20th Century” and voted “#1 Coach of All Time” by “The Sporting News”. “Sports Illustrated” said it best when they said: “There’s never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.” In 2003 John Wooden was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Steve Jamison is America’s foremost author and authority on the life and philosophy of J
| Book Details | |
| Title: | A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Author: | Don Yaeger, John Wooden |
| Edition: | Paperback |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 1608192687 |
| EAN: | 9781608192687 |
| No. of Pages: | 208 |
| Publish Date: | 2011-3-1 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
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