Vince Lombardi - Fritz Knapp

Vince Lombardi

By Fritz Knapp

  • Release Date: 2012-08-07
  • Genre: Football

Description

As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Vince Lombardi: Toughness discusses the struggles and triumphs of Vince Lombardi’s life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve that virtue for him or herself.

What emerges after reading these stories is not only a greater understanding and appreciation of the virtues that these icons needed to get through life, but also an inspiration for the reader. Each story is followed by a small quotation from literature to amplify the meaning and application of the virtue, and each story is also followed by a series of study/review questions and other interactive activities to help the reader further understand the virtue and how to achieve it.

This book is for people of all ages, but it makes for the perfect gift from parents to children or from adult mentors to their students.

Other books in the Sports Virtues series include:

Lou Gehrig: Appreciation 
Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo: Compassion 
Roberto Clemente: Dedication 
Susan Butcher: Determination
Pele: Devotion
John Wooden: Discipline 
Mike Krzyzewski: Encouragement
Cal Ripken, Jr.: Endurance
Walter "Red" Barber: Fairness
Dennis Byrd: Faithfulness
Hank Aaron: Fearlessness
Amos Alonzo Stagg: Honesty 
Eric Liddell: Humility 
Arthur Ashe: Integrity 
Bill Bradley: Intelligence
Jim Valvano: joyfulness
Dan O'Brien & Dave Johnson: Kindness
Dean Smith: Loyalty
Harvey Penick: Modesty
Branch Rickey & Jackie Robinson: Nobility 
Althea Gibson: Persistence 
Clarence "Big House" Gaines, Sr.: Respectability
Joan Benoit Samuelson & Wilma Rudolph: Strength 
Vince Lombardi: Toughness
Gertrude Ederle: Triumph 
Ken Venturi: Trust 
The 1980 Men's and 1998 Women's United States Olympic Hockey Teams: Unity 
Eddie Robinson: Visionary
Happy Chandler: Wisdom

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