Learning from Legends - AFL (Bruce McAvaney)

Learning from Legends - AFL

Interviews by Bruce McAvaney

Blurb: Following the success of Learning from Legends Sport, Business and Australian Cricket, the fourth in the series, Learning from Legends AFL, shifts its leadership focus to the country's biggest professional sport, Australian football, and delivers further insight into the thoughts, experiences and opinions of AFL Legends both past and present. 

Based on extensive interviews conducted by pre-eminent sports commentator Bruce McAvaney, Learning from Legends AFL explores leadership with nearly 50 of the game's greatest ambassadors. The Legends tell McAvaney about their earliest influences, the most inspiring leaders they have played for and with, their key leadership lessons and much more.

The leadership insights presented in Learning from Legends AFL will inspire, motivate and inform all who read it. Although the names are familiar, the insights are unique, and each Legend has contributed in the hope that others may learn from their experiences and triumphs. 

ISBN: 9781921486128 (Hardback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Fairfax Books

Pages: 255 (Non-Fiction)

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The Playboy Interviews - They Played the Game (Edited by Stephen Randall)

The Playboy Interviews - They Played the Game

Edited by Stephen Randall

Blurb: In a magazine known for its photographs, the Playboy Interview stands out today as the best long-form interview in any magazine. The Interview is both incisive and entertaining, and important figures from all walks of life - many of whom honour no other interview requests - have given life - and career-altering interviews in the magazine's pages.

The Playboy Interviews: They Played the Game is the first in an ongoing series that will collect the most memorable interviews from the magazine's history. They Played the Game features some of the most revered - and reviled - American sports stars from the past six decades candidly discussing controversial issues including race, gender, drugs and sex. From Pete Rose's frank statements about gambling in sports to Mike Tyson's incendiary thoughts on the alleged rape that haunted his boxing career, from Billie Jean King's views of the changing role of women in professional sports to O.J. Simpson's raw and unsettling statements both before and after the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, there has never been a compilation of interviews quite like this one. More than simply jocks talking sports, these conversations are a fascinating reflection of the American psyche and our ever evolving cultural perceptions. 

ISBN: 9781595820464 (Hardback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Milwaukie Press

Pages: 480 (Non-Fiction)

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