A Game Plan for Life The Power of Mentoring

by Yaeger, Don; Wooden, John

• ISBN13: 9781608192687
• ISBN10: 1608192687
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

After eight books, many of them bestsellers,A Game Plan for Lifewas 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 forA 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 readingA 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

Author Biography

John Wooden is the most successful coach in NCAA history, having led the UCLA Bruins to 665 victories and ten championships in the years leading up to 1975. Since his retirement, he has become a mentor to dozens of athletes, journalists, and writers, and the author of eight books. Don Yaeger is the author or coauthor of sixteen books, including Never Die Easy, with Walter Payton, and Running for My Life, with Warrick Dunn.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. IX
Foreword	p. XIII
The Seven Mentors in My Life
What Is a Mentor?	p. 3
Joshua Wooden	p. 11
Earl Warriner	p. 27
Glenn Curtis	p. 39
Piggy Lambert	p. 49
Mother Teresa	p. 63
Abraham Lincoln	p. 77
My Beloved Nellie	p. 89
Seven People to Whom I Have Been a Mentor
Pay It Forward	p. 103
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	p. 105
Bill Walton	p. 117
Andy Hill	p. 129
Roy Williams	p. 141
Dale Brown	p. 149
Bob Vigars	p. 161
Cori Nicholson	p. 171
Closing Thoughts	p. 179
Acknowledgments	p. 183
Index	p. 185
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