In three words, describe this book.
This book sucked.
I like Pitino, I LOVED "Success Is A Choice," I'm from Kentucky and I love Basketball (although no longer a UK fan), so you would think this would have been a great book. Nope.
Couldn't get done with it fast enough. Keeping in mind who he is, a basketball coach, and who he coaches, young people (in his terms), this book was filled with page after page of reminders that he is a coach of basketball, and "so this one time, at basketball camp..." followed by "so there was th9is other time, at basketball camp..." not to mention the overwhelming hit-you-over-the-head-statements that young people are lazy, couch potatoes that do nothing but sit around playing video games, watching TV, zero direction in life, no attention span whatsoever, and on and on.
The book may be about leadership but this had quite the decidedly negative feel to it.
I know he had it rough in Boston, maybe that effected him?
Whatever the reason, this was a negative book. A plethora of analogies of his coaching career.
Don't get me wrong, by all means use experience but it just felt like the same damn thing over and over. And I will *never* forget, after this book, his resume of coaching career. Believe me, he sure as hell reminds you enough.
There were altogether *maybe* a page of positive statements and ideas that I took away from this.
My copy will certainly leave my library of motivational books and end up on Amazon or Paperback Swap.

Inspiring thoughts about leadership, with lots of illustrative anecdotes from the author's life as a basketball coach.