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Summary: Football and NASCAR
Review: If you read Gibbs' first book (Fourth & Goal), then skip this one - since it repeats a lot in addressing his football career. Otherwise, it's a solid book - fast paced and enjoyable. Yes, he addresses his relationship with God throughout, but that is who he is (and what you may want to be, too).
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Summary: Good Book, but Know What You Are Getting.
Review: Joe Gibbs is one of the most successful sports leaders of the past 30 years, having won championships in two different professional sports. This alone makes his story of overcoming mistakes very interesting. What I was not prepared for, however, was the Christian aspect of Gibbs' story. He credits all of his success to developing a full, unquestioning faith in God's plan for him. That is fine with me, but his focus on this message (witnessing, if you will) makes Gibbs' story different for readers used to your standard sports coach/leader biography/leadership module. If you want the story of a man's faith journey and his efforts in applying God's teachings to his own life, this will be a great book for you. If you are turned off by such messages, look elsewhere.
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Summary: Right on Target!
Review: Joe Gibbs speaks from his heart. While there are many people who will claim to have their secrets to success, Joe is very clear that his secrets are found in God's Word. He is honest and transparent in sharing from his personal life; both the "ups" and the "downs." By the way, he doesn't say that to have "success" is to necessarily be financially prosperous. Some have missed his point in thinking that this is what he's saying. He's not preaching "prosperity theology," "get God and get rich" or that kind of stuff. He's pointing out the things that really count in life and how these can be obtained. That's what takes 300 pages to get through our hard heads! Don't discount the book because you think he's just repeating the fact that God needs to be brought into the picture to make your rich (financially). He does need to be brought into the picture for true success. He discusses the real purpose in life. Something people today are ignoring. Joe points our attention to eternity and the success that will make a difference long after the NFL and NASCAR are gone! Take time, if you would, and look up the verse on the right tail light of Bobby Labonte's #18 Interstate Battery car. John 3:16 tells the real purpose in life and how to be successful. Thank you for taking time to give Joe Gibbs an opportunity to share from his heart. His book has given me much to think about.
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Summary: Right on Target!
Review: Joe Gibbs speaks from his heart. While there are many people who will claim to have their secrets to success, Joe is very clear that his secrets are found in God's Word. He is honest and transparent in sharing from his personal life; both the "ups" and the "downs." By the way, he doesn't say that to have "success" is to necessarily be financially prosperous. Some have missed his point in thinking that this is what he's saying. He's not preaching "prosperity theology," "get God and get rich" or that kind of stuff. He's pointing out the things that really count in life and how these can be obtained. That's what takes 300 pages to get through our hard heads! Don't discount the book because you think he's just repeating the fact that God needs to be brought into the picture to make your rich (financially). He does need to be brought into the picture for true success. He discusses the real purpose in life. Something people today are ignoring. Joe points our attention to eternity and the success that will make a difference long after the NFL and NASCAR are gone! Take time, if you would, and look up the verse on the right tail light of Bobby Labonte's #18 Interstate Battery car. John 3:16 tells the real purpose in life and how to be successful. Thank you for taking time to give Joe Gibbs an opportunity to share from his heart. His book has given me much to think about.
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Summary: Confusing Title
Review: Joe Gibbs writes a great book for those who are looking for advice on how to become better leaders. Gibbs unashamedly writes from a perspective of faith and offers wisdom through candid snapshots of his broad experiences as a family man, as he worked his way through the ranks to become an NFL Hall of Fame coach, and as he built a Winston Cup championship racing team. Gibbs writes with a transparency that invites the reader to identify with him and want to apply his practical wisdom gained through his many highs and lows. This book would make a great gift item for any sports fan, especially those in positions of leadership either in their families, businesses, or churches. I especially appreciated the "cornerstones" summaries after each chapter.
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Summary: This game plan for success is proven
Review: Joe Gibbs writes a great book for those who are looking for advice on how to become better leaders. Gibbs unashamedly writes from a perspective of faith and offers wisdom through candid snapshots of his broad experiences as a family man, as he worked his way through the ranks to become an NFL Hall of Fame coach, and as he built a Winston Cup championship racing team. Gibbs writes with a transparency that invites the reader to identify with him and want to apply his practical wisdom gained through his many highs and lows. This book would make a great gift item for any sports fan, especially those in positions of leadership either in their families, businesses, or churches. I especially appreciated the "cornerstones" summaries after each chapter.
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: Let me save you some money. I can sum the whole book up for you. "You have no control, give your life to God to acheive anything." Joe Gibbs in the former coach of the Washington Redskins and now the successful owner of a Winston Cup race car operation. Being both a Redskins and NASCAR fan, pluse always ready how others have acheived their success, I was very much interested in this book. But after about 2 chapters, teh disappointment set in. As I mentioned above, the whole premise of Joe's theory on success is "Give it up to God". I certainly have no problem with religion or someone showing so much faith in faith. But a 300 page book that basically says the same thing over and over. Don't bother with this book, even if you are a Redskins and/or NASCAR fan.
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Summary: More than I expected
Review: This book was a pleasant surprise. I expected football and Nascar. Instead I was drawn into Joe Gibbs life. Joe described all the feelings and emotions that go along with unbridaled success and unplanned, catastrophic failure. Through all the trials and tribulations, Joe constantly refers and depends on his faith in God and the place it holds in his day to day walk. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the behind the scenes action of Nascar, the business side of professional football or the day to day decisions and life choices that come with being a christian.
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Summary: Not an autobiography, but his game plan for success
Review: To reach the pinnacle of the ultra-competitive NFL (3 Super Bowl victories) is by itself a remarkable feat. To reach the pinnacle of the ultra-competitive NASCAR Winston Cup series (2 championships) is also remarkable. To do both in the same career? That's unheard of, unless you are Joe Gibbs. As a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, I was never followed the NFC too closely, but then when Tony Stewart joined Joe Gibbs Racing, I started looking at Joe Gibbs and his past accomplishments. What he has done in the sports world is truly remarkable. "Racing to Win" is more about Joe's principles for life and success more than his life story per se, although he uses several incidents in his own life to illustrate his points (including a perilous brush with bankruptcy during his coaching career). Throughout it all, Gibbs doesn't really toot his own horn, describing himself as "just a P.E. major made good", but the fact his that success seems to stick to him like a magnet lends creedence to his principles. Joe has outlined 6 fundamental prinicples that are necessary for a successful life that is also complete. Although one can have some success without all of them (and Joe presents his ex-boss, Jack Kent Cooke as an example), one will fall short of a full and complete life without all of them (career, finances, relationships, team-building, morality, health). These 6, applied with copious amounts of hard work, discipline and perseverence, are Gibbs's game plan of success. As noted by other reviewers, Gibbs' Christianity has a prominent role in his book, but anyone remotely familiar with him should know that it has a prominent role in his life as well. To criticize him for nothing more than actually practicing that which he preaches is a bit unfair, IMO. Joe's own track record of accomplishments speaks for itself. Together with Ken Abraham, he has written a book that is instructive without being preachy, entertaining (his anecdote about broadcasting with Mike Ditka will leave you laughing out loud), and will make you think about what he has to say. It is also not a overly long read, either. If you want to study the "why" more than the "what" behind Joe Gibbs, I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Not an autobiography, but his game plan for success
Review: To reach the pinnacle of the ultra-competitive NFL (3 Super Bowl victories) is by itself a remarkable feat. To reach the pinnacle of the ultra-competitive NASCAR Winston Cup series (2 championships) is also remarkable. To do both in the same career? That's unheard of, unless you are Joe Gibbs. As a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, I was never followed the NFC too closely, but then when Tony Stewart joined Joe Gibbs Racing, I started looking at Joe Gibbs and his past accomplishments. What he has done in the sports world is truly remarkable. "Racing to Win" is more about Joe's principles for life and success more than his life story per se, although he uses several incidents in his own life to illustrate his points (including a perilous brush with bankruptcy during his coaching career). Throughout it all, Gibbs doesn't really toot his own horn, describing himself as "just a P.E. major made good", but the fact his that success seems to stick to him like a magnet lends creedence to his principles. Joe has outlined 6 fundamental prinicples that are necessary for a successful life that is also complete. Although one can have some success without all of them (and Joe presents his ex-boss, Jack Kent Cooke as an example), one will fall short of a full and complete life without all of them (career, finances, relationships, team-building, morality, health). These 6, applied with copious amounts of hard work, discipline and perseverence, are Gibbs's game plan of success. As noted by other reviewers, Gibbs' Christianity has a prominent role in his book, but anyone remotely familiar with him should know that it has a prominent role in his life as well. To criticize him for nothing more than actually practicing that which he preaches is a bit unfair, IMO. Joe's own track record of accomplishments speaks for itself. Together with Ken Abraham, he has written a book that is instructive without being preachy, entertaining (his anecdote about broadcasting with Mike Ditka will leave you laughing out loud), and will make you think about what he has to say. It is also not a overly long read, either. If you want to study the "why" more than the "what" behind Joe Gibbs, I highly recommend this book.
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