Doshell Propivo
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Anyone else here read?
I just started reading Ken Dryden's The Game. Wow. Can't believe it has taken me this long to get it. I'm about a third of the way in and it is nothing short of an incredible read. Just fascinating. He has high praise for Bob Gainey that reminded me a little of our own Josh Bailey.
"If there is such a thing as a 'player's player,' it would be Gainey. A phrase often heard and rarely explained, it is seldom applied to the best player of a sport, as Gainey is not, for performance is only a part of it. Instead, the phrase is for someone who has the personal and playing qualities that others wish they had, basic, unalterable qualities - dependability, discipline, hard work, courage - the roots of every team. To them, Gainey adds a timely, insistent passion, an enormous will to win, and a powerful, punishing playing style, secure and manly, without the strut of machismo. While other players, in their roles, constantly battle between the tension between team and self … simply put, what is good for Bob Gainey is good for the team; and vice versa. In many ways he is like former basketball star Bill Bradley. Without virtuoso individual skills, team play becomes both a virtue and necessity, and what others understand as unselfishness is really cold-eyed realism—he simply knows that works best, for the team and for him.
If I could be a forward, I would want to be Gainey."
Love his writing style. Anyone else read this or any other good books lately?
I just started reading Ken Dryden's The Game. Wow. Can't believe it has taken me this long to get it. I'm about a third of the way in and it is nothing short of an incredible read. Just fascinating. He has high praise for Bob Gainey that reminded me a little of our own Josh Bailey.
"If there is such a thing as a 'player's player,' it would be Gainey. A phrase often heard and rarely explained, it is seldom applied to the best player of a sport, as Gainey is not, for performance is only a part of it. Instead, the phrase is for someone who has the personal and playing qualities that others wish they had, basic, unalterable qualities - dependability, discipline, hard work, courage - the roots of every team. To them, Gainey adds a timely, insistent passion, an enormous will to win, and a powerful, punishing playing style, secure and manly, without the strut of machismo. While other players, in their roles, constantly battle between the tension between team and self … simply put, what is good for Bob Gainey is good for the team; and vice versa. In many ways he is like former basketball star Bill Bradley. Without virtuoso individual skills, team play becomes both a virtue and necessity, and what others understand as unselfishness is really cold-eyed realism—he simply knows that works best, for the team and for him.
If I could be a forward, I would want to be Gainey."
Love his writing style. Anyone else read this or any other good books lately?