Daly Wisdom : Life Lessons from Dream Team Coach and Hall-of-Famer Chuck Daly

by Williams, Pat

• ISBN13: 9781599321639
• ISBN10: 1599321637
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

Before Chuck Daly arrived on the scene, the Detroit Pistons had struggled to find a place in the NBA. Beginning in 1983, Daly led the team to nine winning seasons, capped by back-to-back championship titles in 1989-90. In 1992, he was chosen to lead the original USA Dream Team in the Olympics. But this was just a fraction of Daly's amazing life.

Author Biography

Pat Williams is Senior Vice President and co-founder of the NBA’s Orlando Magic and a longtime friend of Chuck Daly. The author of more than sixty books on topics from sports to humor to biography and leadership, Pat is driven to encourage excellence in others. He is the father of nineteen children, a marathon runner, and popular motivational speaker who challenges himself every day. Pat lives in Winter Park, Florida, with his wife, Ruth, a FranklinCovey instructor.

 

Peggy Matthews Rose is a writer and wordsmith who has worked with Pat Williams on the books Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Transform Your Life with Books, Lincoln Speaks to Leaders, The Takeaway, and Nail It! Ten Secrets for Winning the Job Interview.

Table of Contents

The Spark That Lit This Book	p. 13
Foreword	p. 16
Introduction: Daly Memories	p. 18
Let Leaders Lead	p. 22
Players play, coaches coach, bus drivers drive the bus	p. 22
I'm not a coach, I'm a salesman	p. 25
I'm not a coach, I'm a teacher	p. 27
The players have to allow you to coach them	p. 29
Every day is a crisis. My job is to land the plane safely	p. 34
The best asset a coach has is selective hearing	p. 36
That's my job	p. 39
This isn't my first rodeo	p. 40
Without Teamwork, You've Got Nothin'	p. 43
They all want three things-48 minutes, 48 shots and $48 million	p. 43
Hang around, guys. Hang around	p. 45
You get paid to play eighty-two nights a year	p. 47
Ours is a suffering business	p. 49
We have too many meetings in basketball and they will kill you. You can talk too much-players get tired of your voice	p. 50
Cherish and savor every day you're in the NBA	p. 52
Different team; same problems	p. 55
Shooting makes up for a multitude of pins	p. 56
Only Real People Need Apply	p. 58
You can't fool dogs, kids-or NBA players	p. 58
Stay out of die limelight because it's a players' league	p. 60
You've got to make sure die guys who don't play don't poison the guys who do play	p. 63
Coaching basketball is not about Xs and Os, but about diversity	p. 65
Then get in earlier...beat me in	p. 68
"Everything happens to me"	p. 70
Never Do That	p. 72
Never trust happiness	p. 72
No one looks bad in a blue suit	p. 74
Never get in a fight with a person who buys ink by the barrel	p. 77
Never put a saddle on a mustang	p. 79
Always Do This	p. 83
Practice the midnight rule	p. 83
Take the high road	p. 85
You'd better know where your next job is coming from	p. 87
Let's go! Let's go!	p. 90
You've got to go through the process. Keep moving forward	p. 92
Trust me	p. 93
Get past mad	p. 95
That's Life	p. 97
I'm a product of the Great Depression	p. 97
What do you do best?	p. 99
Consequence of action	p. 101
Beyond belief...beyond beyond	p. 103
You don't really know who you are until you're at least thirty-five	p. 104
Youth must be served-you don't stay on top forever	p. 105
It is what it is	p. 106
Attitude is Everything	p. 109
A pessimist is an optimist with experience	p. 109
Whatever!	p. 110
Rebound. Rebound. REBOUND!	p. 112
Handle it!	p. 114
It's easy to say "yes" six months in advancev	p. 115
Ignore	p. 118
Not a problem!	p. 119
Whatever You Do, Do It With Style	p. 121
What are you doing?	p. 121
All of you want to be in my seat- but it's hot up here!	p. 122
Seduced by the competition	p. 124
Chuckdaly	p. 126
Pat's Final Thoughts - Chuckism #52: We want to be happy after the games	p. 132
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