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Title: Racing to Win: Establish Your Game Plan for Success by Joe Gibbs, Ken Abraham ISBN: 1-57673-947-3 Publisher: Multnomah Pub. Date: 03 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: I'll sum whole book for you
Comment: "God is everything". That's it. That's the whole book. You are not in control and God has a master plan already set just for you. Give yourself up to God and life will be grand.
Needless to say I was very disappointed in this book. I am (was) a fan of the Washington Redskins and I am a huge NASCAR fan so naturally I was attacted to this book by Joe Gibbs.
I do not mean to say that his hypothesis is incorrect (trust in God) but a 300 page book that states the same thing over and over???
Don't bother with this book unless you need reinforcement that God is the way of life. But if that is your passion, you should already be following in His footsteps so there should be no need for this book. If you are not a particularly religous person, this book will be way too much for you.
Save your [money]. Better yet, put the [money] in your collection plate on Sunday. It will do more good there.
Rating: 5
Summary: More than I expected
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not an autobiography, but his game plan for success
Comment: 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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Title: Life Lessons from Auto Racing by Steve Riach, Joe Gibbs ISBN: 1562929704 Publisher: Chariot Victor Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Joe Gibbs: Fourth and One by Joe Gibbs, Jerry Jenkins ISBN: 0840776608 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: True Speed: My Racing Life by Tony Stewart, Mark Bourcier ISBN: 0060188170 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title:The Tough Work of Turning Around a Team by Bill Parcells ASIN: B00005RZAQ Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 27 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.00 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $6.00 |
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Title: Game Plans For Success by R. Didinger ISBN: 0809231719 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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