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UC_Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion

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Pete Carroll is one of the most successful coaches in football today. As the head coach at USC, he brough…

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Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life
Champions do extra.
They sweep the sheds.
They follow the spearhead.
They keep a blue head.


In Legacy, best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world’s most successful sporting team,…
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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Offers insights and best leadership principles from the successful coach of the San Francisco 49ers, explaining how he motivated people, crafted winning teams, and his words of wisdom such as “Believe…
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Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall In Love With the Process of Becoming Great
Guided by “Akira-sensei,” John comes to realize the greatest adversity on his journey will be the challenge of defeating the man in the mirror.This powerful story of one boy’s journey to achieve his l…
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and business people both seasoned and new that the secret to outstan…
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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
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During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he s…
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Stay Sane in an Insane World: How to Control the Controllables and Thrive
“What I learned from Greg is still a part of who I am today.”—Tom Brady, 7-time Super Bowl champion

Greg Harden changes lives.

This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, b…
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The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and ev…
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It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life
Foreword by Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson
From a top mental conditioning coach—”the world’s best brain trainer” (Sports Illustrated)—who has transformed the lives and careers of elite ath…
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The Leadership Secrets of Nick Saban: How Alabama's Coach Became the Greatest Ever
Wall Street Journal BestsellerFor almost every year of the last decade, any college team coveting a national championship has had to reckon with going against the Crimson Tide.With coach Nick Saban at…
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Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life
Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach--especia…
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Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)
From the elite performance coach who authored the international bestseller Relentless and whose clients have included Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwyane Wade, comes this brutally honest formula f…
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
The #1 New York Times bestseller Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed …
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Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season
Remarkable lessons in leadership and teambuilding from one of the greatest college football coaches of our time

In only thirteen years as a head football coach, first at Bowling Green and then at Utah,…
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Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
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"I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs."--John Wooden

Evoking days gone by when coaches were respected as much for their off-court performances as for their success on t…
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Moneyball
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Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every ot…
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Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing l…
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Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
In this informative and inspirational book, Coach K, Duke University's head basketball coach, tells readers how he coaxes peak performances from his team, relying on lessons he learned as a captain in…
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged, and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love o…
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Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football and Life
Legendary head coach Mike Leach tells his captivating story—from rural Wyoming to law school to the upper echelons of the SEC.

SWING YOUR SWORD is the first ever book by one of the most fascinating and…
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Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success: Building Blocks for a Better Life
Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden and Jay Carty know that when it comes down to it, success is an equal opportunity player. Anyone can create it in his or her career, family and beyond. B…
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Friday Night Lights
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Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big…
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
The timeless guide to achieving the state of “relaxed concentration” that’s not only the key to peak performance in tennis but the secret to success in life itself—part of the bestselling Inner Game s…
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
What do Pixar, Google and the San Antonio Spurs basketball team have in common?

The answer is that they all owe their extraordinary success to their team-building skills. In The Culture Code, Daniel Co…

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The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality
"A compelling origin story of a time that really wasn’t so long ago but through the lens of tragedy feels like forever. Kobe-ologists will devour this book, reveling in the anecdotes about his intensi…
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The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
The difference between growing your business and going out of business is your ability to think strategically. The problem is, most leaders are stuck in the operational weeds, struggling to find the t…
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Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
The host of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight offers a blistering critique of the new American ruling class, the elites of both parties, who have taken over the ship of state, leaving the rest…
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The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions
THE #2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisions as a U.S. fighter pilot, The Art of Clear Thinking teaches readers to apply Hasard Lee's combat-tes…
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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks.

Many of us assume that the more succes…
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The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team …
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Ego Is the Enemy
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While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive, visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individu…
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