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(More customer reviews)Behind every great sportsman is a system of values: hard work, self-improvement, service to his community. Those values help drive an athlete (or a coach, or even a sportswriter) to greatness, and the distillation of those values are reflected in a person's outlook, and in his words.
Bill Cairo has assembled the famous quotations from eleven sports greats, athletes who excelled at everything from golf, football, and baseball to coaching, teaching, and jotting purple poetry about the ups and downs of teams and their fortunes on the field of play. But this is not simply a book of quotations; if it were, Cairo coul have written the chapters about Yogi Berra and Mohammed Ali and called it a day. SportsWise also conveys the biographies of the sports figures included on its "Top Ten"-style listing, allowing the reader a fuller understanding of what the book's subtitle calls "The Story Behind the Glory."
Cairo clearly understands the different sporting disciplines he's writing about, but the reader needn't be a pro himself to enjoy SportsWise. In order to be thrilled and moved by this book, all you need to do is turn the pages and read.
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A different collection of sports quotations, The Story Behind the Glory offers hundreds of memorable quotations and the backgrounds of the men who said them. America's greatest athletes, coaches and writers (Aaron, Ali, Ashe, Berra, Lombardi, Rice, Rickey, Robinson, Trevino, Shero, and Wooden) had much to say not only about sports but the greater game of life. Also included is plenty of sports history and trivia, making for a perfect trifecta of a sports book.
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