Perspective

The book was compiled by Brian Kilmeade in an attempt to show the impact of sports on the lives of many successful people, including actors, politicians, and business people. Mr. Kilmeade also includes the stories of several of the survivors of Flight 93, attributing a small portion of their heroism to their past experiences with sports. Mr. Kilmeade is a sports reporter, who has spent most of his career around sports and sports figures. It is through this career that Mr. Kilmeade's perspective comes, through his love of sports and his curiosity over how sports has affected the lives of other people. However, it is not sports figures that he features in this book, but people who played sports in their youth and attribute much of their success to the lessons learned during the playing of these sports.

This book is told in more than seventy, short essays written...