Coach: Lessons On The Game Of Life

Name: Coach: Lessons On The Game Of Life
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Michael Lewis
ISBN: 9780393060911

Michael Lewis

17/04/2005
WW Norton & Co

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Couverture de Coach: Lessons On The Game Of Life par Michael Lewis

Résumé

"There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." 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 now thirty years later, Lewis still finds himself trying to measure up to what Coach Fitz expected of him.