How Football Teaches Success in Life

Winning in the 5^th Quarter

Apply the Secrets of Football to Your Life-Strategy Playbook

by Bob Beck

According to the National Sporting Goods Association, statistics show that close to twenty million Americans over the age of seven participate in some form of organized football play.  But football is more than just a grueling physical sport, it is a microcosm for life. Entrepreneurial businessman, author and keynote speaker Bob Beck, who played competitive football in high school and college, knows that it’s not the last quarter of the game that really counts.  The only quarter that really matters is the 5^th Quarter, the one when the game is over.  

Winning in the 5^th Quarter: Apply the Secrets of Football to Your Life-Strategy Playbook offers a fresh perspective on a game whose lessons teach what the best coaches and the best players already know—how players apply the lessons they have learned on the field to their lives and careers will determine if they really win or lose in the game of life.

Bob Beck points out that football prepares players for success like no other sport.  Not only does it require the highest levels of determination and conditioning, but it also lays the cornerstones upon which to build a successful life after one’s playing days are over. In real life, one doesn’t have teammates or a crowd cheering for them or reinforcement from a coach. Every player knows that even though he is a part of team, the only person he counts on is himself.

In Winning in the 5^th Quarter, Beck lays out the principles behind football and shows how these can be applied to a successful life. From one’s first commitment to their team, a football player’s work ethic includes planning, practice and discipline, three key areas that will help lay the groundwork for success. From chapters such as Before the Snap: Discipline and Goal Setting; Knowing the Playbook: Knowledge; The Battle Field: Competitive Spirit; Improvising on a Busted Play: Creativity; Becoming a Gamer: Courage and Character, Beck shows how to use these football strategies to reach one’s goal line in life. Interspersed throughout each chapter are real-life examples, self-questions, and stories illustrating each of these tactics including preparation, teamwork, training, focus, confidence, profiting from adversity, decision making, lifelong learning and leadership, all timeless lessons to build a personal foundation of excellence.  Football has a goal line that all players strive to cross. Winning in the 5^th Quarter will tell you how to cross it without eleven other guys trying to knock you down.

In 2005 Beck Authored the book,"Mutual Respect-The art and practice of the Quid Pro Quo Selling approach", which can be found at www.MutualRespect.net, BarnesandNoble, or Amazon.com.  In 1999 Bob was asked to contribute to INC. Magazine's book, "310 Great Ideas for Smarter Selling".  You can find Bob's philosophies and tactics profiled in many leading trade magazines, on-line blogs and radio programs. Whether you are the CEO of a fortune 500 organization or a sales person on the front lines Beck's books, CD's, whitepapers, and articles can be your guiding light to success!  www.WinningQ5.com