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20 Sports Leadership Books To Make YOU Better
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items As an avid sports fan and business owner, I was always looking for leadership books that spoke the language of sports! These sports books will help you become a better leader. Whether your favorite sport is basketball, football, baseball, soccer or g...
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Football Leadership Books 🏈
Basketball Leadership Books 🏀
Baseball Leadership Books ⚾️
Leadership Books About Multiple Sports 🏌️♂️⚾️🏀⚽️🏈
Football Leadership Books 🏈
Learn to lead from football’s greatest leaders and coaches! 🏈
Whether you’re a fan of PRIMETIME or not, it’s hard to deny the impact that he’s had as a leader everywhere he goes. This is my favorite book that I’ve read this year so far! Read about Primetime’s 21 ways to win on and off the field based on great f...
Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win
Tony Dungy explores the principles of mentor leadership in this phenomenal leadership book. He emphasizes the importance of building strong relationships, developing character, and guiding others to reach their full potential. He uses some great foot...
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People
Looking for a book to help you build a culture of winning? Look no more! This book outlines seven key principles that are crucial for creating a winning team and emphasizes that building a successful team starts with fostering a strong culture and po...
You Win in the Locker Room First: 7 C's to Build a Winning Team
Learn from one of the best NFL coaches of ALL TIME! This book shares the legendary coach's philosophies and experiences in football and offers insights applicable to various aspects of life and work. It's not just a football playbook, but a guide to ...
The Art of Winning: Lessons from Football
This book is an absolute blessing from the 3 Time Super Bowl winning coach, Bill Walsh. As a 49er fan, this book was a must read, but I wasn’t prepared for the impact this book left on me and my leadership style. This wisdom that Walsh imparts has i...
The Score Takes Care of Itself: Leadership
Basketball Leadership Books 🏀
Basketball is my favorite sport! Learn to lead from some of the best minds in basketball! 🏀
This is my favorite Phil Jackson book! This book walks through each of the 11 championship seasons that Phil coached. No one has been more successful at managing talent and egos than this coach. From Michael to Shaq to Kobe, Phil was incredibly spe...
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson
As a Duke fan, Coach K has a special place in my heart! Whether you love him or hate him, there is no denying Coach K is one of the greatest leaders in college basketball history. In this book, Coach K explains his approach to leadership, which relie...
Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Basketball Strategies
Another legendary coach sharing his perspective on leadership and how it helped him win 7 straight college basketball championships. Wooden takes readers through every step of his team-building journey and features step by step guidelines such as Woo...
Wooden on Leadership
Learn from the LEGENDARY trainer that trained some of the greatest basketball players ever, including Kobe, MJ, and Dwayne Wade. He made these greats even better and this book will help you become unstoppable on your own path to greatness.
Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable
If you are a fan of basketball, you know about Kobe Bryant’s mentality: The Mamba Mentality! Dive deeper into this mentality and how to make it work for you in your life! There are a few books about Kobe’s Mamba Mentality but this book brings you Kob...
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
Baseball Leadership Books ⚾️
Learn to lead from these great baseball books! The stories in these books will inspire you! ⚾️
Clint Hurdle spent his life leading in the baseball world! From player to coach to GM, he delivers a unique collection of inspirational baseball stories that will shine a light on how to lead some of the most wild and successful personalities in the ...
Hurdle-isms: Wit & Wisdom from Baseball
Whether you are a Cubs fan or not, all sports fans know about the Cubs curse that lasted 71 years! This book will dive deep into how the great Theo Epstein and Joe Madden broke that curse by building a team of culture! Must read for any baseball fan ...
The Cubs Way: Zen of Building Best Baseball Team
Any baseball fan will love this book! This book compiles leadership lessons from over 100 MLB players and will add value to your life by helping you improve your leadership skills.
Lead Me Out to the Ballgame: Stories & Strategies
The winningest GM in baseball history, shares his strategies and secrets for building a successful team, providing a behind-the-scenes look at team management and leadership skills.
Built to Win: Stories & Leadership in Baseball
I love books like this that study the most successful teams and connect the dots on why they were all so successful! This book examines how these dynasties achieved sustained excellence while highlighting common traits and strategies that can be appl...
Championing the Cause of Leadership: Baseball Dynasties
Leadership Books About Multiple Sports 🏌️♂️⚾️🏀⚽️🏈
If you love all sports like me, these books are for you! Great insight on the mindsets of greats from all sports!
I LOVED THIS BOOK! This book explores a specific type of leader, the "Captain Class," who consistently emerges as the driving force behind legendary sports teams. He explores the common traits of these leaders of the most successful sports teams in ...
The Captain Class: Hidden Force Behind Top Teams
One of the best mindset books I have ever read! Many athletes use sports psychologists to help them mentally stay in the game! Dr. Rotella is one of the best golf psychologists and some of his notable clients include Rory McIlroy, Ernie Els, and eve...
How Champions Think: In Sports and Life
Fascinating read for any Soccer (or football) fan! Gain an insight on the life experiences and lessons learned from the manager of Manchester United for many years. In this book, he focuses on his leadership principles and how you can apply them to y...
Leading: Learning from Life & Manchester United
This is a great book that studies successful leaders from all over the sports world, including Tyron Woodley, Nick Saban, Will Compton, Jerry Rice, David Goggins, and more. Very different athletes and styles, but the success and leadership principles...
Uncommon Leadership: Newman, Ben
This is great introduction to mindset around optimal performance that is a very easy read. Must read for any aspiring athlete or anyone pursuing excellence!
The Champion's Mind: How Great Athletes Think