Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life

Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
by Michael Lewis

Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
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Author: Michael Lewis
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-07
ISBN: 039333113X
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: W. W. Norton

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Book Review: "Coach" in the Highest Sense of the Word
Summary: 5 Stars

For everyone who has ever had a coach, a good one, in athletics, in a career field, or in any area of life...

For everyone who has ever been a coach, in athletics, in a career fielld, in any area of life. For coaches who cared, genuinely cared...

Those who know will understand and this book will bring a tear to their eye and warmth to their heart and soul...

Those who don't understand should be so blessed....

Summary of Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life

"[Lewis] has such a gift for storytelling."-New York Times

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do."

The coach's message was not simply about winning, but about self-respect, sacrifice, courage, and endurance. In some ways, and even now, thirty years later, Lewis still finds himself trying to measure up to what Coach Fitz expected of him.

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