The Book of Sports Virtues: High Impact Athletes and CoachesPrice World Publishing, 2012 M01 23 The Book of Sports Virtues: High Impact Athletes and Coaches is a masterful collection of stories about the struggles and triumphs of many celebrated athletes. Each chapter is assigned a trait or virtue and uses an athlete's story as a lens through which the reader can gain the insight needed to achieve that trait or virtue. The chapter on appreciation is the story of Lou Gehrig and Jacky Robinson's story is used to exemplify and define nobility. What emerges after reading these stories is not only a greater understanding and appreciation of the virtues that these icons needed to get through life, but also an inspiration for the reader. Each story is followed by a small quotation from literature to amplify the meaning and application of the positive virtue. This book makes for the perfect gift from parents to children or for adult mentors to their students. Its ability to be read one story at a time makes it perfect for the bookshelf or coffee table. |
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... boys.” In training camp drills and scrimmages, he impressed the coaches with his intensity and allaround play: running, blocking, and catching passes. After watching Piccolo perform close up, the coaches decided he was valuable enough ...
... boys.” In training camp drills and scrimmages, he impressed the coaches with his intensity and allaround play: running, blocking, and catching passes. After watching Piccolo perform close up, the coaches decided he was valuable enough ...
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... boys understand that their attitudes and behavior mattered most to their parents. Roger and Bernice did their very best to channel their sons' energies into the most appropriate outlets. Sports became the activity of choice, for both ...
... boys understand that their attitudes and behavior mattered most to their parents. Roger and Bernice did their very best to channel their sons' energies into the most appropriate outlets. Sports became the activity of choice, for both ...
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... boys on his own. But he, too, began drinking too much, only compounding an already bad situation for Gale and his brothers. In Omaha, the five Sayers first lived with Roger's brother, Guy, because it was the only arrangement Roger could ...
... boys on his own. But he, too, began drinking too much, only compounding an already bad situation for Gale and his brothers. In Omaha, the five Sayers first lived with Roger's brother, Guy, because it was the only arrangement Roger could ...
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... boys. They had grown accustomed to being poor, which included wearing ragged clothes and eating inadequate meals such as chicken claws. They turned their physical hunger into competitive drive and made the most of a bad situation. Young ...
... boys. They had grown accustomed to being poor, which included wearing ragged clothes and eating inadequate meals such as chicken claws. They turned their physical hunger into competitive drive and made the most of a bad situation. Young ...
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... boys' activities. Growing up in Florida in the 1950s and '60s meant living in a segregated community. Blacks were treated by many whites as second-class citizens. Even more rigidly than in Kansas or Nebraska where Sayers grew up, the ...
... boys' activities. Growing up in Florida in the 1950s and '60s meant living in a segregated community. Blacks were treated by many whites as second-class citizens. Even more rigidly than in Kansas or Nebraska where Sayers grew up, the ...
Contents
Amos Alonzo Stagg | |
Joan Benoit Samuelson and Wilma Rudolph | |
Eric Liddell | |
Althea Gibson | |
John Wooden | |
Gertrude Ederle | |
Ken Venturi | |
The 1980 Mens and 1998 Womens United States Olympic Hockey Teams | |
Happy Chandler | |
Susan Butcher | |
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