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Becoming a True Champion
Achieving Athletic Excellence from the Inside Out
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2012
Summary
Today, aspiring athletes have to work harder and be more dedicated than athletes of previous generations who did not have to contend with the messages of a popular culture that promotes winning at all costs and implicitly condones "shortcuts" to winning. Many of today's athletic superstars glorify and demonstrate cheating and illicit, destructive conduct. Whether off the field antics or on the field cheating through the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs typify an athlete's lack of personal values, the bad behavior displayed by many in a broad range of sports is hard to escape. The result is that too many such negative role models and influences are out there, diverting today's developing competitors down a seductive path to failure rather than upward to excellence and lasting, honest achievement.
Becoming a True Champion: Achieving Athletic Excellence from the Inside Out fills a critical need by speaking in a frank and direct voice directly to today's aspiring athletes about these crucial, controversial issues and the personal choices they face. At the same time the book presents them with the antidote to these negative influences-the fundamental values, attitudes and concepts, both mental and practical, that support and lead to athletic excellence.
A "true champion" is an athlete with the specific qualities of character, mental discipline, and physical skills necessary to generate and keep increasing athletic excellence and success throughout his or her career. These qualities can be learned and developed; they need not be inborn. Becoming a True Champion goes deeply into each quality to show developing athletes how adopting it directly affects and enhances athletic performance, longevity, and dignity. Through relevant examples, inspiring stories, and a personalized approach, the book shows athletes how to avoid the many pitfalls, and overcome the inevitable obstacles, so common in today's sports culture.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1406-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1407-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
240
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Foreword No access
Message to Aspiring Athletes from Phil Wunderlich No access
Acknowledgments No access
A Champion No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
The Code of a True Champion No access Pages 5 - 6
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Chapter 5 No access
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Expectation from Practice No access
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Individuality No access
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Chapter 19 No access
Who Am I? No access
Your Greatest Gift to Yourself No access Pages 225 - 226
References and Notes No access Pages 227 - 232
Index No access Pages 233 - 238
About the Authors No access Pages 239 - 240
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