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Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear. By Paul Assaiante and James Zug. 239 pages. Portfolio/Penguin. $29.95.
Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear by Paul Assaiante and James Zug
One of the country’s top coaches teams up with an award-winning journalist to write a book about the successes of the Trinity men’s squash team.
For a sport rarely given the media time it deserves, a book on a victorious squash match between Princeton University and Trinity College comes with life lessons that exceed expectations for sports and non-sports fans alike. Then again, it could also be the fact that Coach Paul Assaiante takes the time to learn about his players, their fears, and how to tackle them on and off the squash court. “I don’t care about your goals,” he writes in the book, “I want to know what you are afraid of. What are your anxieties, your doubts? What holds you back? What holds us back? Let’s confront your fears. Let’s run to the roar.” The book is divided into several stories focusing on the team’s players, who hail from all over the world. Each chapter is inevitably a life lesson. As Michael Bramberger of Sports Illustrated writes, “The genius of Paul Assaiante is not what he understands about squash… but what he understands about people. Reading this book… will make you better at something. Maybe squash. Luckily life.”
This week’s hot reads on The Daily Beast include our new book Run to the Roar.
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