Off The Bench And Into The Game

Create Value Through Relationships Are you someone who gets off the bench and into the game by realizing the value and importance of people and networking, or do you stay on the bench and on the sidelines altogether? Strategic networking will help you create powerful relationships, achieve goals, and most importantly, give you the opportunity to help those in need. Get off the Bench takes you through stories, concepts, techniques, and numerous examples of how strategic networking is accomplished, what is to be avoided, and how value is created for everyone involved. As technology, globalization, and world events continually drive for and demand more connectivity, building and maintaining a powerful network is more important than it has ever been.

'You Miss 100% Of The Shots You Don't Take.' Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky It's time to start shaking it up, and take that shot TODAY! Start pushing yourself out there and accept that we all need to take steps to become a better husband, father, and person. Start facing head on the possibility that you may fail, and might do so in front of friends and family, but will NEVER give up! Don't procrastinate on becoming a Game Changing Dad! You can't succeed unless you try, and that means you have to take action. It doesn't have to be a huge step. In fact, I would argue that it shouldn't be. The SMALLEST of actions can sometimes have the LARGEST of impacts. You only have so much time, so much energy, so much in the way of resources. You don't want to waste any of it! That's why you want to start shooting for your goals today. Be the Game Changing Dad you were meant to be! Ray "Razor" Matz is the Lead Life Disruptor at Game Changing Dads, specializing in Accountability & Action through Mastermind Groups and Personal Coaching. Our goal is to increase your personal and business success. Ray has over 30 years of business experience and 20 years of coaching leadership. We hope to Motivate & Encourage others to Lead, Love, and Live. Ray and his family live in Fernandina Beach, Florida. www.gamechangingdads.com

Get Off the Bench & Into the Game incorporates basketball skills and applies them to life. Franqua "Coach Q" Bedell shares experiences he has encountered throughout his life and coaching career. This book is a Success Strategy Playbook that implements leaderships techniques and helps discover one's inner strength.Bedell has learning disabilities that could have easily caused him to throw in the towel and quit, but he used the abilities he has, to soar to higher heights, and you can do the same. Throughout the pages of this book, you will learn how to: Get focusedCreate a winning G.P.A.Attack your dreamsLive a successful lifeIf you are you sitting on the bench of life or have given up on your goals, this is a MUST READ! Do you want more out of life, but don't know what you need to do? It's time to get in the game! Stop wasting time and letting opportunities pass you by.

By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color, and slowly their star started to rise again. Drama and Pride in the Gateway City commemorates the team that Bing Devine built, the 1964 team that prevailed in one of the tightest three-way pennant races of all time and then went on to win the World Series, beating the New York Yankees in the full seven games. All the men come alive in these pages—pitchers Ray Sadecki and Bob Gibson, players Lou Brock, Curt Flood, and Bobby Shantz, manager Johnny Keane, his coaches, the Cardinals’ broadcasters, and Bill White, who would one day run the entire National League—along with the dramatic events that made the 1964 Cardinals such a memorable club in a memorable year.

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Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, the team, managed by Bucky Harris, was coming off three non-pennant-winning seasons and given little chance to unseat the defending American League champion Boston Red Sox. And yet, led by Joe DiMaggio, this un-Yankees-like squad of rookies, retreads, and a few solid veterans easily won the pennant over the Detroit Tigers and the heavily favored Red Sox, along the way compiling an American League–record nineteen-game winning streak. They then went on to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a dramatic seven-game World Series that was the first to be televised and the first to feature an African American player. Bridging Two Dynasties commemorates this historic club—the players, on the field and off, and the events surrounding their remarkable season. Along with player biographies, including those of future Hall of Famers DiMaggio, Bucky Harris, Yogi Berra, and Phil Rizzuto, the book features a seasonal timeline and covers pertinent topics such as the winning streak, the Yankees’ involvement in Leo Durocher’s suspension, and the thrilling World Series.

In this New York Times Bestseller, College football's most colorful, endearing, and successful pioneer, Steve Spurrier, shares his story of a life in football -- from growing up in Tennessee to winning the Heisman Trophy to playing and coaching in the pros to leading the Florida Gators to six SEC Championships and a National Championship to elevating the South Carolina program to new heights -- and coaching like nobody else. He's been called brash, cocky, arrogant, pompous, egotistical, and hilarious, but, mostly, he's known as the Head Ball Coach, a self-ordained term introduced to the lexicon of football by none other than the man, himself, Steve Spurrier. He is the only coach who can claim to be the winningest coach at two different SEC schools, and the only person who has won both the Heisman Trophy as a player and a national championship as a coach. Or who has won a Heisman and coached a Heisman winner. From the beginning, Spurrier didn't want to sound like other coaches, dress like other coaches, and, especially, coach like other coaches. As a controversial football pioneer, he ushered in a different style of leadership and play. Spurrier's press conferences were glorious -- he refused to lapse into coachspeak and was always entertaining, although he took his football very seriously. He was known for his fierce competitiveness, roaming up and down the sidelines, often throwing his signature visor to the ground in disgust. Now resigned from coaching at age 70 -- he doesn't like to say "retired" yet -- Spurrier has calmed down, but don't mistake that for a lack of fire. He can be just as feisty as the day he set foot on the East Tennessee dirt in Johnson City's Kiwanis Park, where he grew up to become one of the state's all-time greatest athletes, and went on to play for Florida where he launched one of sports history's all-time great careers. In his memoir, Spurrier talks for the first time about the circumstances under which he unexpectedly became a coach and why he resigned at South Carolina. He explains his unique style, the difference between winners and losers, his relationship with the media, why he follows the wisdom of ancient philosophers and warriors, his affinity everything taught by John Wooden, and the reasons behind his relaxed regimen for living well. Spurrier, as always, speaks candidly, bringing together his thoughts about his words, actions, and achievements, while telling countless wonderful anecdotes.