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The warrior : Rafael Nadal and his kingdom of clay / by Clarey, Christopher,author.;
"After his award-winning look at Roger Federer, Christopher Clarey, one of the world's preeminent tennis writers, focuses his lens on Rafael Nadal, the indomitable and inspiring force of nature from Spain who has been one of the most relentless competitors in any sport. THE WARRIOR examines Nadal's mindset and most mind-blowing achievement: 14 French Open titles. Nadal has won big and won often on tennis's other surfaces en route to becoming one of the greatest players of all time: securing two Wimbledon titles on grass and four U.S. Open titles on cushioned acrylic hardcourts. But clay, the slowest and grittiest of the game's playgrounds, is where it all comes together best for his tactical skills, whipping topspin forehand and gladiatorial mindset. Clay is to Rafael Nadal what water is to Michael Phelps, which helps explain one of the most impressive individual sports achievements of the 21st century. Clarey, who has been covering Nadal since he was 17, draws on interviews over many years with Nadal and his team and with rivals like Roger Federer. But like The Master, this is not just a book about tennis. THE WARRIOR draws much wider lessons from Nadal's approach to competition"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Nadal, Rafael, 1986-; Internationaux de France de tennis, Roland Garros.; Athletes; Tennis players;
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The heart is the strongest muscle : know your why and take your mindset from great to unstoppable / by Toomey, Tia-Clair,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.'Atomic Habits' meets CrossFit in 'The Heart is the Strongest Muscle', in which legendary six-time CrossFit Games champion and Olympic athlete Tia Toomey shares lessons from her inspiring story of leveling up her performance, embracing failure, and fiercely taking on impossible goals. Toomey addresses the challenges and rewards of being a woman in sport and she talks about how physical fitness is only a small part of overall strength: more important is building mental toughness.
Subjects: Biographies.; Self-help publications.; Personal narratives.; Toomey, Tia-Clair.; Athletes; Change (Psychology); Self-actualization (Psychology); Success.;
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I am Ali [videorecording] / by Ali, Muhammad,1942-; Brown, Jim,1936-; Foreman, George,1949-; Lewins, Clare.; Focus World (Firm); Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, George Foreman, Carl Fischer, Hana Ali, Maryum Ali, Muhammad Ali Jnr.An intimate and heart-warming look at the man behind the legend as we've never seen Ali before. The documentary is told through exclusive, unprecedented access to Ali's personal archive of voice recordings combined with touching interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends, including his daughters, son, ex-wife and brother, plus legends of the boxing community including Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Gene Kilroy.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Ali, Muhammad, 1942-; African American athletes; Boxers (Sports); Documentary films.; Sports films.;
© 2014., Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
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The miracle season [videorecording] / by Hunt, Helen,1963-actor.; McNamara, Sean,1963-film director.; Moriarty, Erin,1994-actor.; Skovbye, Tiera,actor.; Cohen, David Aaron,screenwriter.; Matsueda, Elissa,screenwriter.; Elevation Pictures,publisher.; LD Entertainment,presenter.;
Helen Hunt, Tiera Skovbye, Erin Moriarty, William Hurt, Danika Yarosh.Based on a true story, a high school girls' volleyball team must pull together and compete after the sudden death of their star player.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Sports films.; Found, Caroline, 1994-2011; Female high school athletes; Teenagers; Women volleyball players;
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Undisputed : a champion's life / by Bailey, Donovan,1967-author.;
"From chasing a soccer ball through the fields of his native Jamaica as a child, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada's most thriving cultural mosaics, to his run toward Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996, Donovan Bailey got a long way on natural talent. But he soon learned he needed to be his own toughest critic if he was going to be the very best. As he rose quickly to prominence in Canada's track scene, others didn't always understand the rigour at work behind his confident demeanour. Media reported, not his determination, but that he was immodest in a way they weren't accustomed to seeing from Canadian athletes, especially track athletes in the wake of the Ben Johnson doping scandal at Seoul in 1988. Bailey was having none of it, and when he called out racism in Canada in a way that contradicted the prevailing idea most Canadians had of their country, he started a media uproar and cracked wide open the nation's moral complacency. Aside from his 100-metre and 4x100 relay golds in Atlanta, Bailey's track career was a litany of records and rare accomplishments, including his audacious 1997 race in Toronto's SkyDome against American 200-metre Olympic champion Michael Johnson to determine who was really the world's fastest man. There would be no disputing the result. For all his talent, Bailey was coached in success long before he was coached in athletics. Following the footsteps of his father, a real estate investor, Bailey was a self-made millionaire by the age of 21 and continued to apply a disciplined mentality to everything he did in life. An Olympic champion, yes, but one mentored in the ways of his mind well before he was taught how to optimize the gifts of his body. Frank about the way Bailey dominated the 100-metre (not even his favourite sport), and unapologetic for pushing those around him as hard as he pushed himself, Undisputed is an athlete's story told with the kind of entertaining and inspiring verve very few of his peers can match."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Bailey, Donovan, 1967-; Athletes, Black; Sprinters; Jamaican Canadians;
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Next goal wins [videorecording] / by Basch, Garrett,film producer.; Brett, Mike(Motion picture producer and director),film producer.; Cavendish, Jonathan,film producer.; Fane, David,1966-actor.; Fassbender, Michael,1977-actor.; Jamison, Steve,film producer.; Kaimana,actor.; Kightley, Oscar,actor.; Morris, Ian,screenwriter.; Waititi, Taika,film director,film producer,screenwriter,actor.; Searchlight Pictures,production company.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, David Fane, Rachel House, Beulah Koale, Taika Waititi, Will Arnett, Elisabeth Moss, Uli Latukefu, Chris Alosio, Rhys Darby.Follows the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team, known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-0. With the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen, hoping he will turn the world's worst soccer team around in this humorous and heartfelt underdog story.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some strong language and crude material.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Sports films.; Soccer teams; Soccer; Soccer players; Coach-athlete relationships; Soccer coaches; Samoan Americans; Male friendship;
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What makes Olga run? : the mystery of the 90-something track star, and what she can teach us about living longer, happier lives / by Grierson, Bruce,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Kotelko, Olga, 1919-; Kotelko, Olga, 1919-; Sports for older people; Track and field athletes;
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Stink and the ultimate thumb-wrestling smackdown [sound recording] / by McDonald, Megan.; Rosenblat, Barbara.;
Read by Barbara Rosenblat.After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
Subjects: Athletic ability; Children's audiobooks.; Families; Physical education and training; Schools;
© p2012., Brilliance Audio,
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Catch the fair one [videorecording] / by Chu, Tiffany,actor.; Henshall, Daniel,1983-actor.; Reis, Kali,actor.; Wladyka, Josef Kubota,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.;
Kali Reis, Daniel Henshall, Tiffany Chu, Michael Drayer, Lisa Emery.Buffalo boxer Kaylee (Kali Reis, who co-wrote) retreated into a corner of drug dependency after the disappearance of her kid sister Weeta (Mainaku Borrero). Finding Weeta's picture in the online ad of a sex trafficking ring, she offers her services as a new worker to the creeps running the operation ... with the endgame of finding her sibling and then punching their way out. Intense effort also stars Kimberly Guerrero, Shelly Vincent, Kevin Dunn.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Crime films.; Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Boxing; Crime; Indigenous peoples; Missing persons; Sisters; Women boxers; Indigenous athletes;
For private home use only.
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Tough broad : from boogie boarding to wing walking-how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age / by Paul, Caroline,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: from mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? 'Tough Broad' is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like ninety-three-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, eighty-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, fifty-two-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, sixty-four-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Chasers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren't experts. But their experiences and the scientific studies that back them up offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. 'Tough Broad' is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, in our fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Aging; Older women athletes.; Older women; Older women; Outdoor recreation for women.; Aging;
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