The Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports (Paperback)

by Brian Kilmeade (Author) "We've all read the stories about sports legends like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and John Elway..." (more)
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What do Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, Condoleezza Rice, and Jon Bon Jovi 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 businesspeople, 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 have entertained, surprised, and inspired readers nationwide with their insight into America's most respected and well-known personalities. Kilmeade presents more than seventy stories straight from the men and women themselves and those who were closest to them. From competition to camaraderie, individual achievement to teamwork, failure to success, the world of sports encompasses it all and enriches our lives. 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!

About the Author

Cohost of cable television's number one morning show, Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade has reported on or provided live coverage of every major American sport over the last twenty years. He lives in Massapequa, New York, where he still coaches soccer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: HarperEntertainment (October 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060736763
• ISBN-13: 978-0060736767
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #723,087 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 10 star must read, November 21, 2004

By	MotherLodeBeth "MotherLodeBeth" (Sierras of California) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

This review is from: The Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports (Hardcover)

This is a must read for any female or male who wants to know how sports (doing not watching) can help improve your life in all areas. Reading about each of the men and women one better understands how they became whom they are, both good and bad. I think it is a book that parents of pre-teen and teen agers would be wise to buy as well, since statistics show that young women who take part in sports as teens, succeed better in school and put off sexual activity.

And for an adult grappling with some major challenge in their life be it work related a disease or loss of a spouse, reading the stories may well help them re-focus and succeed in the challenge as well. I speak from experience.

Growing up in a family of engineers, physicists, educators, to homesteaders and homeschoolers, sports have always played a big role in small and big successes, because they teach team work, accountability and priority making skills as well as how to think quick or what I call triage thinking.

And as a young girl growing up ion the fifties my Dad would often use shooting baskets, casting a fly fishing line, golf, or hitting a baseball, or skiing to teach me skills that would serve me well be it building a house, working on a car, or being a good wife and mother. Or surviving widowhood and illness.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring, entertaining, and provocative, November 18, 2004

By	L. A. Kane (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports (Hardcover)

Kilmeade's seventy-some interviews of world leaders, politicians, celebrities, and business moguls are great reading, insightful, and very entertaining. I learned a lot about the how the lives of George Bush, Gerald Ford, John Kerry, Condoleeza Rice, Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, John Bon Jovi and many others were affected by what they learned in sports; how a game, a coach, or a significant event impacted their lives.

I participated in a wide variety of sports growing up: judo, skiing, target shooting, archery, hunting, football, baseball, and mountain climbing to name a few. The lessons I learned from the individual competitions made me stronger while the team sports helped me get along better with my friends and coworkers. All these activities helped mold my character and improve my self-esteem. Before reading this fascinating book I had not realized how great an impact such activities can have in all successful people.

In a time when a majority of American's are overweight, schools are cutting back on physical education, and more and more youth sports take competition out of the game, this book is a compelling argument that we ought to pay more attention to the way sports used to be played. Through the thrill of victory and the humiliation of defeat we can learn to set high goals and achieve great things by participating in sports. The author poignantly states how competition has enriched the lives of our best and brightest. Great book!

Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to give to EVERYONE in the family, October 18, 2004

By	Kristi Mccormick (New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports (Hardcover)

I read this book from cover to cover in a record amount of time. Each story is more inspiring and moving than the next. Even though I never played team sports, I learned how the smallest win in school could lead to the biggest successes in life. I'm so glad Brian got his celebrity subjects to open up as much as they did. You'll be suprised how candid some of the stories are. I can't wait for book #2 to come out.... !