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• Owning It

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  Don Yaeger

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  The road to greatness in sports often looks to us like an unbroken string of successes. We don’t often see or remember the failures nor do we remember how they were handled. We should. In the NFC Championship game three weeks ago, San Francisco 49’ers wide receiver and punt returner Kyle Williams mishandled two punts that led directly to a to ...
  Feb 15 Tags: Untagged

• Eli Manning: Quietly, Confidently Chasing Greatness.

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  Don Yaeger

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  In August 2011 Manning was being interviewed on New York City’s ESPN 1050 Radio by Michael Kay. “Is Eli Manning an elite quarterback? Are you a top 5, a top 10 quarterback?” Kay asked. Manning simply replied “Yeah…” The firestorm from that one-word answer lasted all season…especially when the Giants were floundering at 7-7 and looked like their p ...
  Feb 08 Tags: Eli Manning, Quietly

• What We Can Learn From Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady On Success

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  Don Yaeger

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  I’m fascinated by what drives successful people…really successful people. Tom Brady is going to his fifth Super Bowl this week seeking a record tying fourth Super Bowl win. How did he get to such status?  In a recent Sports Illustrated article, “Tom Brady As you Forgot Him” writer Michael Rosenberg talked about how Brady was told by then U ...
  Feb 01 Tags: Untagged

• Let's Chase Greatness...

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  Don Yaeger

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  Welcome to the first installment of what I hope will become a go-to blog for you. My name is Don Yaeger and I'm a seven-time New York Times best-selling author and longtime associate editor of Sports Illustrated. Some people study academics, some people study mathematics, some study art… I've been fortunate to study WINNERS! Four years ago, I star ...
  Jan 25 Tags: Chase Greatness, Don Yaeger, Greatness, Winners
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