Autobiografie van de Amerikaanse wielrenner (1971- ). die in 1993 het wereldkampioenschap wielrennen op de weg op zijn naam zette, en sinds 1999 viermaal de Tour de France, maar zijn belangtijkste overwinning behaalde hij in de strijd tegen kanker.
Elke seconde telt is het vervolg op de megabestseller Door de pijngrens, waarin Lance Armstrong zijn strijd tegen kanker en zijn grootse sportprestaties beschrijft. Sinds Door de pijngrens is er heel wat gebeurd in het leven van Lance Armstrong: een nieuwe serie sensationele ritten, de ongelofelijke overwinningen in de Tour de France, de uitverkiezing tot Sportman van het Jaar 2002, het vermeende dopinggebruik, de geboorte van zijn dochters, kritieke huwelijksmomenten en uiteindelijk een scheiding. De man die overwon en overwint zal ook met dit boek weer miljoenen bewonderaars in het hart raken. Zij zullen mét Lance Armstrong ervaren dat in het leven elke seconde telt.
They had no business being there. They were up against million-dollar horses owned by patricians, oilmen, Arab sheiks, and Hollywood producers. They were ten regular guys, and all they wanted was to win a race. Instead, they won the hearts of America. In 2003, a three-year-old with the unlikely name of Funny Cide became "the people's horse," the unheralded New York-bred gelding who-in a time of war and economic jitters-inspired a nation by knocking off the champions and their millionaire owners and sweeping to the brink of the Triple Crown. Trained by a journeyman who'd spent over 30 years looking for "the one," ridden by a jockey fighting to come back after years of injuries and hard knocks, and owned by a band of high school buddies from Sackets Harbor, N.Y., Funny Cide became a hero and media sensation. Now, Sally Jenkins, award-winning co-author of Lance Armstrong's #1 bestseller It's Not About the Bike, tells the inside story of the Funny Cide team's ups and downs against overwhelming odds, illness, and even scandal, to capture the imagination of millions. It's a new American classic for the underdog in all of us.
Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor. For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men's basketball program with unsurpassed success- on the court and in shaping young men's lives. In his long-awaited memoir, he reflects on the great games, teams, players, strategies, and rivalries that defined his career, and explains the philosophy that guided him. There's a lot more to life than basketball- though some may beg to differ- but there's a lot more to basketball than basketball, and this is a book about basketball filled with wisdom about life. Dean Smith insisted that the fundamentals of good basketball were the fundamentals of character- passion, discipline, focus, selflessness, and responsibility- and he strove to unite his teams in pursuit of those values. To read this book is to understand why Dean Smith changed the lives of the players he coached, from Michael Jordan, who calls him his second father and who never played a single NBA game without wearing a pair of UNC basketball shorts under his uniform, to the last man on the bench of his least talented team. We all wish we had a coach like Dean Smith in our lives, and now we will have that chance. From the Hardcover edition.
" Chaque fois que je remporte le Tour de France, je prouve que je suis vivant et que d'autres peuvent survivre. J'ai survécu au cancer, encore et encore et encore. J'ai remporté cinq fois le Tour, et je ne serais pas contre un sixième titre en 2004. Ce serait une bonne façon de vivre. Mais je n'aurais pas remporté un seul Tour sans ce que la maladie m'a appris : la douleur n'a qu'un temps mais lorsqu'on renonce, c'est pour toujours. Il n'y a pas eu pour moi de dénouement heureux comme dans les contes. J'ai survécu au cancer et j'ai effectué un retour triomphant, comme cycliste, en remportant le Tour 1999, mais c'était plus un commencement qu'une fin. Au cours des cinq années qui ont suivi, j'ai eu trois enfants, j'ai subi des centaines de contrôles anti-dopage, je me suis rompu le cou, j'ai gagné d'autres courses, j'en ai aussi perdu quelques-unes et j'ai vécu la fin de mon mariage. Entre autres aventures. "
