It's How You Play the Game: The Powerful Sports Moments That Taught Lasting Values to America's Finest

Brian Kilmeade

Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Sports & Recreation - 388 pages

In life as in sports, it's how you play the game that matters

You don't have to be a star athlete to take away valuable lessons from the world of sports, whether it's learning how to get along with others, to never give up, or to be gracious in victory and defeat. In this companion volume to his New York Times bestseller, The Games Do Count, Brian Kilmeade reveals personal stories of the defining sports moments in the lives of athletes, CEOs, actors, politicians, and historical figures—and how what they learned on the field prepared them to handle life and overcome adversity with courage, dignity, and sportsmanship.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• DOROTHY HAMILL: 42
• BILL GOLDBERG AKA GOLDBERG: 43
• 11: 49
• SUGAR: 69
• SIMON: 76
• DAWN: 83
• DANNY: 90
• STEDMAN GRAHAM: 98
• 26: 106
• WILLIAM BENNETT: 113
• MARCELO BALBOA: 120
• 32: 128
• RUDY: 135
• RUSH: 144
• ELISABETH: 152
• ARTHUR BLANK: 160
• 42: 167
• BETH OSTROSKY: 174
• ANTONIO: 181
• ERIC: 189
• DARA: 198
• MARTIN: 206
• DANNY AIELLO: 212
• BRANDI: 220
• JERRY: 232
• COACH VINCENT: 239
• SENATOR BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL: 247
• DARRELL WALTRIP: 254
• JOHN: 261
• CHRIS: 267
• HANK WILLIAMS: 274
• POPE JOHN PAUL II KAROL WOJTYLA: 280
• MARY: 286
• GARY: 294
• JOHN: 305
• GEORGE: 314
• TYRONE MUGGSY: 321
• GEORGE SHULTZ: 329
• MUHSIN: 336
• ROBERT: 343
• 90: 352
• AFTERWORD: 361

About the author

Brian Kilmeade was born on May 7, 1964. He graduated from C. W. Post in Long Island, New York in 1986. He started his career in journalism as a freelance sports anchor and covered the NewYork/New Jersey Metro-Stars soccer team. He is the author of The Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports, It's How You Play the Game, George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History, and Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle that Shaped America's Destiny. He is currently a co-host of Fox's morning show, Fox and Friends.

Bibliographic information

• Title: It's How You Play the Game: The Powerful Sports Moments That Taught Lasting Values to America's Finest
• Author: Brian Kilmeade
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2009
• ISBN: 0061745529, 9780061745522
• Length: 388 pages
• Subjects: Humor / Form / Essays; Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational; Sports & Recreation / Essays