Losing Isn’t Everything: The Untold Stories and Hidden Lessons Behind the Toughest Losses in Sports History Audiobook (Free)

A relaxing and thought-provoking take a look at sportsmen whose legacies have been reduced to 1 defining instant of defeat-those on the flip side of the epic triumph-and what their encounters can train us about competition, existence, and the human being spirit.

Every sports fan recalls with amazing accuracy a pivotal winning moment involving a favorite group or player-Henry Aaron hitting his 715th home run to complete Babe Ruth; Christian Laettner’s famous buzzer defeating shot in the NCAA competition for Duke. However about Dropping Isn’t Everything: The Untold Tales and Hidden Lessons Behind the Toughest Losses in Sports Background lost will be the stories on the other side of these history-making moments, the sportsmen who experienced not really transcendent glory but crushing disappointment: the cornerback who skipped the tackle on the big touchdown; the relief pitcher who dropped the series; the world-record keeping Olympian who dropped on the glaciers.

In Losing Isn’t Everything, famous sportscaster Curt Menefee, joined up with by bestselling writer Michael Arkush, examines a variety of signature ‘disappointments’ in the wide world of sports, interviewing the subject at the heart of each reduction and uncovering what it means-months, years, or decades later-to be associated with failure. While background is written by the victorious, Menefee argues these occasions when an athlete provides fallen brief are equally important to sports history, offering deep insights in to the individuals who suffered them and about mankind itself.

Telling the losing stories behind such famous moments as the Patriots’ Rodney Harrison guarding the Giants’ David Tyree through the ‘Helmet Capture’ in Super Bowl XLII, Mary Decker’s fall in the 1984 Olympic 1500m, and Craig Ehlo who gave up ‘The Shot’ to JORDAN in the 1989 NBA playoffs, Menefee examines the legacy of the hardest loses, revealing the unique path that athletes have to walk once they lose on the sport’s biggest stage. Shedding new light some of the most accepted scapegoat stories in the sports activities cannon, he also revisits both Baltimore Colts’ loss to the Jets in Super Dish III, as well as the Crimson Sox loss in the 1986 Globe Series, showing why, despite many years of humiliation, it might not end up being all Bill Buckner’s fault.

This considered and compassionate study offers invaluable lessons about pain, resilience, disappointment, remorse, and acceptance that can help us look at our lives and ourselves inside a profound new way.