Game Ready: 52 Takeaways for Winning
Game Ready unlocks the tools every player, on and off the field, needs to achieve success. Whether your coaching and training athletes or leading a dynamic team in business, Coach Mickey Marley has cleverly distilled the key components for everyday victory into what he calls 52 Takeaways for Winning. Short, concise, and practical, every Takeaway addresses the pitfalls that stand in the way of coaches or leaders creating a successful team. In this book, team members will hear the distinct voice of a former player who became a respected coach, a voice they will want to take into their future endeavors. In Takeaway #30, No Excuses, Marley challenges readers in his no nonsense-style to take responsibility for their performance. In Takeaway #46, he candidly captures every player and coach's surest road to defeat as he urges maintaining a healthy self¬-worth in Don't Beat Yourself. His passion for the game of football is the thread that weaves his spirited essays, from Takeaway #38, Football, the Great Equalizer to Takeaway #24, God, Family, Football. Crafted for men and women, players and coaches, and anyone who truly desires to succeed in their chosen field, Game Ready offers real opportunity for personal growth using lifelong principles too often overlooked. Coach Marley is a native son of Tennessee with a keen understanding of people and what motivates them to excel. Game Ready is his first book.
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Game Ready: 52 Takeaways for Winning
Game Ready unlocks the tools every player, on and off the field, needs to achieve success. Whether your coaching and training athletes or leading a dynamic team in business, Coach Mickey Marley has cleverly distilled the key components for everyday victory into what he calls 52 Takeaways for Winning. Short, concise, and practical, every Takeaway addresses the pitfalls that stand in the way of coaches or leaders creating a successful team. In this book, team members will hear the distinct voice of a former player who became a respected coach, a voice they will want to take into their future endeavors. In Takeaway #30, No Excuses, Marley challenges readers in his no nonsense-style to take responsibility for their performance. In Takeaway #46, he candidly captures every player and coach's surest road to defeat as he urges maintaining a healthy self¬-worth in Don't Beat Yourself. His passion for the game of football is the thread that weaves his spirited essays, from Takeaway #38, Football, the Great Equalizer to Takeaway #24, God, Family, Football. Crafted for men and women, players and coaches, and anyone who truly desires to succeed in their chosen field, Game Ready offers real opportunity for personal growth using lifelong principles too often overlooked. Coach Marley is a native son of Tennessee with a keen understanding of people and what motivates them to excel. Game Ready is his first book.
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Game Ready: 52 Takeaways for Winning

Game Ready: 52 Takeaways for Winning

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Game Ready unlocks the tools every player, on and off the field, needs to achieve success. Whether your coaching and training athletes or leading a dynamic team in business, Coach Mickey Marley has cleverly distilled the key components for everyday victory into what he calls 52 Takeaways for Winning. Short, concise, and practical, every Takeaway addresses the pitfalls that stand in the way of coaches or leaders creating a successful team. In this book, team members will hear the distinct voice of a former player who became a respected coach, a voice they will want to take into their future endeavors. In Takeaway #30, No Excuses, Marley challenges readers in his no nonsense-style to take responsibility for their performance. In Takeaway #46, he candidly captures every player and coach's surest road to defeat as he urges maintaining a healthy self¬-worth in Don't Beat Yourself. His passion for the game of football is the thread that weaves his spirited essays, from Takeaway #38, Football, the Great Equalizer to Takeaway #24, God, Family, Football. Crafted for men and women, players and coaches, and anyone who truly desires to succeed in their chosen field, Game Ready offers real opportunity for personal growth using lifelong principles too often overlooked. Coach Marley is a native son of Tennessee with a keen understanding of people and what motivates them to excel. Game Ready is his first book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781543960006
Publisher: BookBaby
Publication date: 05/10/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Mickey Marley is a respected Tennessee football coach, earning the distinction of being named to the Tennessee Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame. During his 37-year coaching career, he has consistently earned the acclaim of his peers. He has been selected TSSAA District Coach of the Year twelve times and has been presented the All-American Football Foundation High School Coach Award. His career began at his alma mater, the University of Tennessee at Martin, and continued for thirty years at the high school level where he gained his winning reputation at University School of Jackson. Today, he continues leading the sport he loves as Head Coach at Rosenwald Middle School in Trenton, Tennessee. Off the field, he enjoys speaking and participating in numerous football player and coaching organizations. His true passion is his family. He and his wife Lisa have two daughters. Jordan, is a graduate student at Mississippi State University. Kristen and her husband, J.P. Harrison, have three sons Jack, Eli, and Charlie Harrison.

Table of Contents

Foreword 1

Introduction 3

Desire to Play 7

Takeaways #1 thru #10

There Ain't No Cain't 9

Altering the Self Esteem Syndrome 11

Change or Get Changed 13

You Gotta Be You 17

You're Always Where You're At 19

Always Look Around to See What Can Hurt You 21

If It Ain't Broke… 23

Old School, New School, No School 25

They Got It, You Get It, Got It! 27

A Lot of Try 29

Trusting My Coach 31

Takeaways #11 thru #26

You Get What You Demand 33

Do Whose Job? 35

Potential Will Get You Fired 37

Game Plan 39

It Ain't Work 41

'I Wish I Had Of' 43

Does Winning and Losing Really Matter? 45

Make the Call 47

Box…What Box? 49

Price 51

The Big Three 53

Down and Distance 57

No Fun 59

God, Family and Football 61

The Grind 63

Coaches Coach, Players Play, Parents Parent 65

Photos 67

Listening To My Coach 71

Takeaways #27 thru #38

The Right Thing 73

All We Want is All You Got 75

Practice 77

No Excuses 79

Hustle 81

Basics 83

Don't Take Financial Advice from Broke People 85

Time 87

Pressure 89

Gettin' It 91

You Gotta Produce 93

Football, the Great Equalizer 95

Lessons Learned 97

Takeaways #39 thru #52

Less is Better Than More…Really 101

Is This Competitive? 103

Heart 105

What Does Control Really Mean 107

Want vs. Willing 109

Vision 111

Perspective of a Bird 113

Don't Beat Yourself 117

Consequences 119

Life-Love it; You're Gonna Leave It 121

Fountain of Youth 125

Compact Players 127

Dependability 129

Great Finisher 131

About the Book 133

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