Author Description

In this warm, witty, and engaging book, award-winning author and pioneering athlete (Stanford, first women's pro basketball league) Mariah Burton Nelson offers 26 entertaining and thought-provoking chapters (one for each letter of the alphabet) on discipline, endurance, humility, integrity, joy, mind games, quitting, strength, winning, and other life lessons from the playing fields. She shows readers how to approach life with an athletic mentality, bringing courage, confidence, commitment, leadership, and teamwork to everyday endeavors. Includes interviews with leaders in business, military, and the arts, quotes from Tiger Woods, Babe Didrikson, Venus Williams, Chamique Holdsclaw, and other sports icons, and a workbook section at the back of each chapter, so it can be used for leadership development programs. Ideal for athletes and aspiring athletes, but also motivational tool for nonathletes and self-defined "klutzes." The author's primary message: "Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success."