The Coaching category has 96 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 816 ratings. The most-rated is Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World's Fittest Athletes.
The Carolina Way
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For 40 years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success. Now, in The Carolina Way, he explains his coaching philosophy and shows listeners how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges they face in their own lives. In his wry, sensible, wise way, Coach Smith takes us through every aspect of his program, illustrating his insights with vivid stories. Accompanying each of Coach Smith’s major points is a “Player Perspective” from a former North Carolina basketball star and an in-depth “Business Perspective” from Gerald D. Bell, a world-renowned leadership consultant and a professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. The keystones of Coach Smith’s coaching philosophy are widely applicable and centrally relevant to building successful teams of any kind.
©2005 Dean Smith (P)2018 Penguin Audio
The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino
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From acclaimed New York Times Magazine author Michael Sokolove, the astonishing inside story of the epic corruption scandal that has rocked the NCAA and exposed the rot and hypocrisy at the heart of big-time college sports. At a lavish annual event in late August 2017, the University of Louisville athletic director, who made more than five million dollars in compensation in 2016, announced an extension of his school's sponsorship deal with Adidas: $160 million for another 10 years. The invitees were city's gentry - horse breeders, bourbon distillers, partners at big law firms, the state's governor, Matt Bevin, and its most powerful politician, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. One month later, the FBI revealed it had reached the endgame of a sprawling investigation of large-scale corruption involving Adidas, Louisville, and a host of other colleges in which large payments were laundered from Adidas through a network of coaches and fixers to athletes and their families to induce them to go to Adidas-branded college programs. In short order, Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino (salary: eight million dollars) and athletic director Tom Jurich were fired, and fear and trembling swept through the world of big-time college athletics. Because there is another shoe, as it were, and it will fall. In The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino, Michael Sokolove lifts the rug on the Louisville scandal and places it in the context of the much wider problem: the farce of amateurism in big-time college sports. In a world in which even assistant coaches can make high-six and seven-figure salaries as long as they keep the "elite" athletes coming in, shoe deals can reach into the nine figures, and everyone is getting rich but the players, can it be surprising that unscrupulous parties would pay athletes, creating in effect a black market in young men, a veritable underground railroad of talent? But a few bad apples are one thing. In The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino, Michael Sokolove shows an elaborate, systematic machine involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit payments and connecting at least one of the largest apparel companies in the world with schools across the country. The Louisville-Adidas scandal has revealed a web of conspiracy whose scope has shaken big-time college sports to its core, delivering a devastating blow to the fantasy of amateurism, of "scholar athletes". A Shakespearean drama of greed and desperation involving some of the biggest characters in the arena of sports, The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino will be the definitive chronicle of this scandal and its broader echoes.
©2018 Michael Sokolove (P)2018 Penguin Audio
Cycling: Bicycling Made Easy
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Are you tired of being out of shape and stuck inside all the time? Whether you want to race as a professional, get fit, or just get away and enjoy the outdoors more, then this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know. Are you ready to get more energy and start enjoying your exercise again? Cycling is easy to learn, a lot of fun, and if you really love it you can even try to go professional! However, there is much more to cycling than just learning to balance on two wheels. There is both an art and a science to cycling that can give you a massive advantage, whether you view cycling as a sport, a hobby, or as a form of transportation! If you love cycling and want to take your skills to the next level, then this is the book for you! Experience all the health benefits of cycling in the fresh air. Discover how cycling can improve your muscle tone, increase your core body strength, boost your circulation, and enhance your respiration. Enjoy being outdoors while cycling with friends and family. Because all ages can ride together, this is one of the best activities you can share with your family and friends. Bond together as you ride. Create some great memories! Take your cycling to the next level. If your friends are highly competitive, what better way to compete than on two wheels? Use your competitive nature to spur each other on to ride faster and farther. Develop unity and teamwork while enjoying cycling's massive health benefits. Get fit while enjoying one of the most pleasurable activities on the planet!
©2016 Ace McCloud (P)2016 Ace McCloud
50 Things to Know About Coaching
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Do I want to become an elite coach in my sport? Do I want inspire my players to be successful in sport, but also in their lives? Do I want to learn qualities that make me a great coaching candidate? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this audiobook is for you. 50 Things to Know About Coaching, by Shane A. Reinhard, offers an approach to coaching sport that is not just about wins and losses, but more about skill development, relationship building, and being successful outside of sport. Most books on coaching a sport speak to how coaches can have great success winning. Although there's nothing wrong with winning, why don’t you see what you have to offer outside of winning? Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, coaching sports has a lot more to do with compassion than controlling by anger and fear. The latter seems to be embodied by a lot of coaching styles at every level these days. In this audiobook, you'll discover what makes a great coach by looking inside yourself to find the style that works for you. Coaching continues to grow in depth across the world, and your opportunity to glean from that growth is fully accessible. Unfortunately, good coaching styles seem to be few and far between. It is time for great coaches like you to rise up. By the time you finish this audiobook, you will know how coaching can be successful for you and your team. You will be able to put this advice to work by figuring out what practices are best for your program.
©2017 Lisa Rusczyk (P)2017 Lisa Rusczyk
Golf's Holy War
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Just as Michael Lewis' Moneyball captured baseball at a technological tipping point, Brett Cyrgalis’s Golf's Holy War captures golf at a monumental turning point between its beloved artistic tradition and its analytic future. The world of golf is at a crossroads. As technological innovations displace traditional philosophies, the golfing community has splintered into two deeply combative factions: the old-school teachers and players who believe in feel, artistry, and imagination, and the technical-minded who want to remake the game around data - attack angles, spin rotation, ball speed, and more. In Golf’s Holy War, Brett Cyrgalis takes listeners inside the heated clash playing out from weekend hackers to Tiger Woods. At the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, California, golfers clad in full-body sensors target weaknesses in their biomechanics, while others take part in mental exercises designed to test their brain’s psychological resilience. Meanwhile, coaches like Michael Hebron purge golfers of all technical information, tapping into the power of intuitive physical learning by playing rudimentary games. From historic St. Andrews to manicured Augusta, experimental communes in California to corporatized conferences in Orlando, from William James to Ben Hogan to theoretical physics, the factions of the spiritual and technical push to redefine the boundaries of the game. But Golf’s Holy War is more than just a story about golf - it's a story about modern life, and how we are torn between resisting and embracing the changes brought about by the advancements of science and technology. It's also a story about historical legacies, the enriching bonds of education, and the many interpretations of reality.
©2020 Brett Cyrgalis (P)2020 Simon & Schuster Audio
Shula
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Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Don Shula remains the winningest coach of all time with 347 career victories and the only undefeated season in NFL history. But before he became the architect of the Dolphins dynasty, Shula was a hardworking kid selling fish on the banks of Lake Erie. As acclaimed sports biographer Mark Ribowsky shows, Shula met serious resistance at home when he asked to play high school football, but when his parents finally relented, they discovered that their son had an unmatched mind for the game's strategy and a stomach for its brutality. With rugged determination, the jut-jawed Shula started as a defensive back in the 1950s, later beginning his 32-year coaching career as the then-youngest coach ever with the Baltimore Colts. The Colts had several successful years, but Shula never quite recovered from the historic loss to the upstart New York Jets in Super Bowl III, and when a lucrative job opened in Miami, he took his talents to South Beach, where he led the Dolphins to the first perfect season in NFL history. Tracing Shula's singular rise from his blue-collar origins to his glory days in the Miami heat, Ribowsky reveals a man of grit and charisma who never lost sight of a simple creed: "All I've ever done is roll up my sleeves, figure out what to do, and start doing it."
©2019 Mark Ribowsky (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
How to Be Better at Basketball in 21 Days: The Ultimate Guide to Drastically Improving Your Basketball Shooting, Passing and Dribbling Skills
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Want to learn the exact basketball skills, strategies, and techniques the pros use? Discover a 21-day fast-track program to break through your basketball barriers. Struggling to nail that winning shot? Can’t seem to pull off the spectacular passes and incredible crossovers you see on TV? James Wilson is a 30-year veteran of basketball coaching with experience gained in 20 countries. Wilson’s genius, laser-focused 21-day program is designed to improve your game no matter your current skill level. How to Be Better At Basketball in 21 Days: The Ultimate Guide to Drastically Improving Your Basketball Shooting, Passing and Dribbling Skills, teaches you using precision drills and specific exercises to stack skill after skill. Using Wilson’s special core philosophy, this thorough system will improve your form, develop new skills, and help you challenge even the most advanced players. In How to Be Better At Basketball in 21 Days, you’ll discover: Expert techniques to dramatically increase your basketball shooting accuracy How to crush your crossovers and handle the ball like a boss How to toughen your mental state and play with courage, confidence, and control How to challenge those more advanced players and succeed while doing it How to be that go-to player who takes the winning shot and much, much more How to Be Better At Basketball in 21 Days is the definitive manual for any basketball player from amateur to pro. If you like learning practical, step-by-step, no-nonsense techniques straight from an expert, then you’ll love Wilson's easy-to-follow guide. Buy How to Be Better At Basketball in 21 Days to slam dunk the competition today! PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2012 James Wilson (P)2018 James Wilson
The 7 Laws Of Coaching
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Inspire Others to Massive Success and Achievement! Would you like to: Inspire your team? Help people get better results? Keep others motivated? Get people excited about their goals? And be the leader you were meant to be? If so, look no further! In Brian Cagneey's The Seven Laws of Coaching: Powerful Coaching Skills That Will Predict Your Team's Success, you'll unlock the coaching genius inside of you. By answering the crucial coaching questions and developing genuine leadership and integrity, you can instill these attributes in those around you. When you put these proven steps and strategies to use, people will follow you willingly - because you've shown yourself to be an excellent coach! All coaching books will tell you that the coaching habit is a difficult challenge, and learning how to coach is no easy task, but when you put these coaching skills to the test, you'll be coaching teams to winning performances in no time! In The Seven Laws of Coaching, Brian Cagneey explains: The First Law of Coaching: Developing the right mindset The Second Law of Coaching: Being strong without being mean The Third Law of Coaching: The secret to finding solutions The Fourth Law of Coaching: A special ingredient for motivating people The Fifth Law of Coaching: The forgotten law of getting results The Sixth Law of Coaching: The only way someone can improve The Seventh Law of Coaching: Keeping everyone on track
©2016 Brian Cagneey (P)2016 Shapleigh Publishing LLC
Stop Competing and Start Winning
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If you are in athletics and are searching for a competitive advantage your opponents don’t have, this book is for you. If you are in an organization that wants to tap into the passion and competitive spirit of sport, this book is for you. Beth Launiere and Leo Hopf have performed at the highest levels in their respective fields for more than 30 years. Beth has been the head volleyball coach at the University of Utah and is coming off of being named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year and reaching the NCAA Division One Sweet Sixteen. Leo is a management consultant who has advised the world’s most dynamic and complex organizations on their strategies, decision making, and organizational effectiveness. “One hallmark of improvement devotees is this: they prospect for ideas where others have not. Beth and Leo struck pay dirt looking outside the world of sport - just the chapter on Delegation, and its Golden Rule, is worth a coach's time. Hungry for new coaching ideas? Your feast awaits.” (Karch Kiraly, coach of the USA women’s national volleyball team) “Managing a staff is one of our great challenges as coaches. Everything starts at the top - how the staff works and relates will set the tone for the team. This book provides business concepts and tools to design any sports program or organization to win and reach the next level of success.” (Tara VanDerveer, two-time women’s basketball national champion at Stanford) “Finally, a Management 101 guide specific to the coaching profession; this book is invaluable for every coach.” (Kathy DeBoer, executive director, American Volleyball Coaches Association)
©2020 Leo Hopf (P)2020 Leo Hopf
Pounding the Rock
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Welcome to Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, in a working-class corner of the Bronx, where a driven coach inspires his teams to win games and championships - and learn Russian history and graduate and go on to college. In 2006, the Fannie Lou Hamer Panthers basketball team was 0-18. Since 2007, the year Marc Skelton, a New Hampshire native, took over as head coach, the Panthers' record has been 228-68, and they've won three Public School Athletic League championships and one statewide championship. This tiny 400-student school has become a powerhouse on the basketball court, as well as a public education success story and a symbol of the regeneration of its once blighted neighborhood. In Pounding the Rock, Marc Skelton tells the thrilling story of the 2016-2017 season, as the Panthers seek to redeem an early exit from the playoffs the year before. But this is far more than a basketball story. It's a profile of a school that, against the odds, educates kids from the poorest congressional district in the country and sends the majority of them to college; of an unusual coach who studies the game with Talmudic intensity, demands as much of himself as he does of his players (a lot), and finds inspiration as much from Melville, Gogol, and Jacob Riis as from John Wooden; and of a squad of young men who battle against difficulties in life every day and who don't know how to quit. In a world of all too many downers, Pounding the Rock is one big up, on the court and off. All fans of basketball and of life will rise up and applaud.
©2019 Marc Skelton (P)2019 Random House Audio
The Back Roads to March
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Thirty years after changing the sports book landscape with his mega-hit, A Season on the Brink, number one New York Times best-selling author John Feinstein returns to his first love - college basketball - with a fascinating and compelling journey through a landscape of unsung, unpublicized and often unknown heroes of Division-1 college hoops. John Feinstein has already taken listeners into the inner circles of top college basketball programs in The Legends Club. This time, Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinderella stories - the smaller programs who no one expects to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school recruits, who rarely send their players on to the NBA. Feinstein follows a handful of players, coaches, and schools who dream, not of winning the NCAA tournament but of making it past their first or second round games. Every once in a while, one of these coaches or players is plucked from obscurity to continue on to lead a major team or to play professionally, cementing their status in these fiercely passionate fan bases as a legend. These are the gifted players who aren't handled with kid gloves - they're hardworking, gritty teammates who practice and party with everyone else. With his trademark humor and invaluable connections, John Feinstein reveals the big time programs you've never heard of, the bracket busters you didn't expect to cheer for, and the coaches who inspire them to take their teams to the next level.
©2020 John Feinstein (P)2020 Random House Audio
Play Their Hearts Out
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The NBA has returned to prominence on the backs of phenoms like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Garnett. The media promotes them, the shoe companies pay them, and America applauds. But how exactly do such players reach the pros? What do they give up to get there? And what happens to those who fall short? Drawing on eight years of reporting and telling the very specific tale of one talented young recruit, his coach, and his teammates, George Dohrmann immerses listeners in the world of grassroots basketball, where men hunt for future NBA stars and young boys and their parents navigate a tumultuous course in pursuit of basketball glory.
©2010 George Dohrmann (P)2010 Blackstone Publishing, and Urban Audiobooks
Bill Belichick: On Personnel: His Thoughts on Building a Roster, Player Evaluation & Tom Brady
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Bill Belichick: On Personnel
Bill Belichick in his own words!
This audiobook explores Belichick's thoughts on his players, the NFL, Tom Brady, and the skills needed to play each position. If you want to learn the insights that has guided the development of the Patriots then this audiobook will help you. Also, the chapter on Tom Brady will enable you to understand the dynamics behind one of the greatest player/coach relationships of all time.
Buy this audiobook today!
Here's a preview of what you'll learn:
Building a roster in the NFL
Thoughts on Tom Brady
What he thinks of opposing coaches
His thoughts on some of the best players in the NFL
How to scout players and evaluate prospects
If you want to learn what Bill Belichick looks for when deciding how to draft or build a roster and his thoughts on some of the greatest players and coaches in the NFL then this audiobook is for you!
©2018 Pete Smith (P)2018 Pete Smith
Building Mental Toughness in Sport
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Building Mental Toughness in Sport: An Introduction into Sports Psychology for Athletes. The power to become better, greater, more refined versions of ourselves is something that each one of us possesses. It is a power with which we are born, like infinite gold inside the equally infinite mine shafts that are our minds. Now, to get at that gold - there is the rub. Since time immemorial people have struggled to manage the darkness within themselves. How do we reckon our possibilities with our capabilities? How do we overcome the difficulties within? How do we shake off the invisible sandbags that seem to drag us down and run faster, jump higher, push harder? The answers to these questions and more lie within the audio of Building Mental Toughness in Sport, Benjamin Bonetti's groundbreaking self-development text that will take you further into the depths of yourself than you have ever gone before. Find your imperfections and then blast them away: this audiobook will show you the way and put you on a path toward reaching your ultimate potential. All you must do is follow the instructions contained herein and perform the exercises, and improvement can be yours. This is the next chapter of your athletic career. Are you ready to begin? Benjamin Bonetti is a leading sports performance coach and author of several best-selling books, including the UK's best-selling How to Stress Less and How to Change Your Life. "This introduction into increasing mental toughness is not designed to be the sole solution to your search for betterment but a thought-provoking tool. It is a snippet of what's available in our more comprehensive coaching platforms or The New Encyclopedia of Sports Psychology. (Benjamin) Bonus material included: 20-minute endurance coach meditation.
©2016 Benjamin Bonetti (P)2016 Benjamin Bonetti
Instant Replay
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This classic sports book takes listeners inside the 1967 season of the Green Bay Packers, following that storied team from training camp to their dramatic victory in Super Bowl II. Candid and often amusing, Jerry Kramer describes from a player's perspective a bygone era of sports, filled with blood, grit, and tears. No game better exemplifies this period than the classic "Ice Bowl" conference championship game between the Packers and the Dallas Cowboys, which Kramer, who made the crucial block in the climactic play, describes in thrilling detail. We also get a rare and insightful view of the Packers' legendary leader, coach Vince Lombardi. As vivid and engaging as it was when it was first published, Instant Replay is an irreplaceable reminder of the glory days of pro football.
©2008 Jerry Kramer (P)2014 Blackstone Audiobooks
Miracles on the Hardwood
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Discover the David vs. Goliath rise of Catholic college basketball, from Villanova to Georgetown to Gonzaga, where small schools perennially shoot past the big power conference programs.
©2021 John Gasaway (P)2021 Twelve