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America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports
Regan Books
October 2004
336 pages
ISBN: 0060736739
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
What do Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, Condoleezza Rice,
and Jon Bon Jovi all have in common? They have all reached
the top of their respective professions, and they all credit
sports for teaching them the lessons that were fundamental
to their success. In his years spent interviewing and
profiling celebrities, politicians, and top business people,
popular sportscaster and Fox & Friends cohost Brian
Kilmeade has discovered that nearly everyone shares a love
of sports and has a story about how a game, a coach, or a
single moment of competition changed his or her life.
These vignettes will entertain, surprise, and inspire
readers with their insight into the lives of America's most
respected and well-known personalities -- many of whom have
never before shared these memories publicly. How did Henry
Kissinger's experience on an all-Jewish soccer team in Nazi
Germany shape him for his future role as a statesman? Why
did Tony Danza need to pick himself off the canvas and score
a knockout in the boxing ring to grab the part of Tony Banta
in Taxi? How did Jon Bon Jovi's genes short-circuit
his dreams of playing for the New York Giants, and why did
that have such an important impact on his life? How did
soccer, not stand-up comedy, play such a big role in Jon
Stewart's staggering success in the kill-or-be-killed world
of late-night talk? Kilmeade presents more than
seventy of these stories straight from the memories of the
men and women themselves and those who were closest to them.
From competition to camaraderie, failure to success,
humiliation to glory, individual achievement to teamwork,
the world of sports encompasses it all and enriches our
lives. As Kilmeade observes, "They allow us to compete and
sacrifice, to build character and, even if only for a
moment, to transcend the everyday." The Games Do
Count reveals this simple and compelling truth:
America's best and brightest haven't just worked hard --
they've played hard -- and the results have been staggering!
Comments
2 comments posted.
Re: The Games Do Count
Save the city and restore the order to the agents of the Special
Detachment. Almost immediately the player gets to the operating base.
It is the development of the headquarters that affects what the user
has. Initially, there are only a couple of traders and there are three non-
functioning units: medical, technical and power. To each of them are
attached their story and side tasks, for which they give points for
"pumping" the necessary departments of the base.
(Daimond Salvadore 11:48am May 20, 2018)
For example, the emergence of weapons in the power block will allow
you to take a portable shelter, and with the dispatching center the
turret is unlocked. Over time, of course, everything will be available,
but at first it is desirable to carefully monitor what exactly you want to
receive and what tasks to perform first. The chosen way to improve the
base affects not only skills (active skills), but also talents (passive
properties, the number of which is limited) and "advantages" - small
bonuses like additional first-aid kits in the backpack.
(Daimond Salvadore 11:50am May 20, 2018)
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