Martin Rooney - Coach to Coach: An Empowering Story about How to Be a Great Leader

For great performances in your profession and familystudy this book!

Dan Gable

Olympic gold medalist, three-time U.S. Olympic team coach

15 NCAA team titles, University of Iowa Wrestling

355-21-5 lifetime coaching record

Some books you read for entertainment. Some you read for enlightenment. Coach to Coach will give you both.

Coach Lou Holtz

1988 NCAA National Champions, Notre Dame Football

Only coach to lead six different college programs to bowl games

College Football Hall of Fame

Coach to Coach is an important reminder of the power of a coach. If you want to help more people and make a positive impact on the lives of others, read this book!

Jon Gordon

Best-selling author of The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, and Training Camp

Coach to Coach is about human development through sports. Martin Rooney gets it EXACTLY right in very clear ways: Elite coaching is about relationships, character development, and accountability.

Anson Dorrance

22 NCAA Championships, University of North Carolina Women's Soccer

1991 U.S. Women's Soccer World Cup Champions

7-time NCAA Women's Soccer Coach of the Year and 1987 NCAA Men's Coach of the Year

U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame

Finding the right coach at the right time had an incredible impact on my life. In today's sports and business world, there has never been a more important time to have responsible and ethical people in place serving as coaches. Coach to Coach offers you practical and user-friendly tips on how best to be THAT coach for someone else.

Shawn Johnson

Olympic gold and silver medalist in gymnastics

Winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars

Coach to Coach tackles the challenges and joys that come from a life of coaching. Use these simple coaching strategies and you will have no choice but to help more people.

Phillip Fulmer

1998 National Champions, University of Tennessee Football

College Football Hall of Fame

Coach to Coach is a must-read for anyone interested in being the best version of themselves as a coach, teacher, spouse, or parent. Martin Rooney combines wonderful teaching points with an engaging story. I have read many books on leadership and feel Coach to Coach will be a classic for coaches from youth sports all the way up to the professional level.

Mark Krikorian

Head coach, Florida State Women's Soccer

2014 and 2018 NCAA National Champions

Coaching is so much more than teaching someone how to play a sport. Coaching is about teaching them how to become great at life. What they learn on the field is what they do off the field. Coach from the heart with an open mind and find value in every playerform a synergy and watch the magic happen. Coach to Coach is your guidebook on how to help inspire someone to live out the story of their dreams.

Rudy Ruettiger

The inspiration for the blockbuster film Rudy

Coach to Coach is a great reminder of the simple coaching principles that produce results. Whether you are working with athletes on the deck at the Olympic Games or teaching young group swimmers foundational mechanics, coaches, mentors, and teachers need to practice the ideas in this book in order to offer our best coaching to the young people we are blessed to get to coach.

David Marsh

12 NCAA team titles, Auburn University Swimming

Head coach, 2016 U.S. Olympic Women's Swim Team

Coach of 54 Olympians from 21 different countries

Coach to Coach is a much-needed guide that will teach you how to inspire others. Martin trained me to be my best at the NFL Combine and has now made his coaching strategies into a simple philosophy for anyone. This captivating sports story will teach you how to be a better coach no matter who it is you lead.

Chris Long

2018 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year

Two-time Super Bowl champion

Martin Rooney jukes right and then breaks left with Coach to Coach, and he scores again! As a coach, you are better after reading it. That's really all there is to it. This should be mandatory reading for all coaches at every level to learn to connect and contribute. Thank you for making me better, Martin.

Gunnar Peterson

Head strength and conditioning coach, Los Angeles Lakers

Coaching is about doing everything in your power to bring out the best in someone else. Even the greatest coaches in the world need guidance at certain points in their careers. In his book Coach to Coach, Martin Rooney offers that guidance in a powerful story. With so many great relatable lessons in every chapter, this little book will help you be that coach your athletes will always remember for the right reasons.

Liane Blyn

Head of Sports Performance, Arizona State University

Multiple-time World Champion and World Record Holder in powerlifting

As a fighter, you rely heavily on your coaches for support and direction. Martin was always my coach, and he was able to help me by saying the right thing at the right time. Using the story in Coach to Coach, he masterfully teaches you how to better connect and communicate to help someone fight their next battle.

Jim Miller

First fighter to reach 30 fights in UFC history

Most career fights in the Octagon in UFC history

After 33 years of coaching, I have learned there is a lot more than the X's and O's of the game. It is also about who those X's and O's are and how you can grow them as both players and people. Having watched Martin coach for years, I know he always did both. Coach to Coach is a valuable resource that should be on every coach's bookshelf.

Greg Toal

2009 and 2011 U.S. High School National Champions, Don Bosco Football

Lifetime 305-55-2 coaching record

To be a successful coach you must be likable, believable, and an example for all on your team. In each of these elements, as a coach and a leader, Martin Rooney has set the standard. If you enjoy inspiring stories with memorable characters that teach you simple wisdom, this book is for you. I highly recommend this book for anyone who considers him- or herself a coach.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Best-selling author of YES Attitude and The Little Red Book of Selling

There's more to coaching than the strategic, technical, and tactical aspects of a certain situation. Coaching also includes mentorship, leadership, and character development. A great coach instills the intangibles of discipline, resiliency, and fortitude to challenge individuals to be better than the day before. Coach to Coach can help you to make that connection.

Joe Kenn

Head strength coach, Carolina Panthers

2015 NFL Strength Coach of the Year

Coach to Coach provides an easily relatable view into the frustrating but equally exhilarating profession of coaching. This is a book I would recommend to anyone looking to improve as a coach, regardless of sport.

Tony Veney

Head coach, track and field and cross country, Ventura College

2017 USA Track and Field Coach/Educator of the Year