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Sports Biographies

Find all the best sports biographies with all the biggest sports stars at tales.as. We offer an exciting selection of sports biographies about the best athletes around the world. If biographies is one of your favorite genres and simultaneously love sports, will you most likely find inspiration for your next reading experience, in the selection below. We always stay up to date, when new books written by or about athletes are released so we can always offer the most recent and best sports biographies. Our selection consists of a wide range within just about every sport, which means if you are searching for sports biographies about football, you have not searched in vain. Go take a look for our great sports biographies here, and you will hopefully get one step closer to your idol and read or listen to how they have experienced being such a successful athlete.

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    - The Greatest Coup in Horse Racing History
    by Nick Townsend
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    With a meticulous, entirely legal plan involving dozens of people, perfectly timed phone calls, sealed orders and months of preparation, Curley and Yellow Sam beat the bookmakers and cost them millions.

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    by Alexandra Heminsley
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    The author had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decided to run. Her first attempt did not end well. Six years later, she has run five marathons in two continents. This book tells her story.

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    - The Autobiography
    by Ronnie O'Sullivan
    £9.49

    World Snooker Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan's frank and honest account of his astonishingly dramatic life.

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    - My Story
    by Dennis Bergkamp
    £9.49

    The long-awaited memoir of Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp, whose autobiography is as unique and special as the player himself

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    by William Fotheringham
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    Britain's leading cycling writer, William Fotheringham, goes back to speak to those who were there at the time and those who knew Merckx best to find out what made Eddy Merckx so invincible. 'The full unvarnished of one man's heaven, and hell, on wheels' Independent

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    - The Official Ronda Rousey autobiography
    by Ronda Rousey
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    *WINNER British Sports Book Awards SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*'I have this one term for the kind of woman my mother raised me not to be, and I call it a 'Do-Nothing B-tch'.

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    by Jimmy Connors
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    Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the game. And he won more tournaments - an astonishing 109 - than any other man in history, including eight Grand Slam singles titles. Only now is Connors ready to set the record straight on what really happened on and off the court.

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    by Boris Becker
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    Boris Becker shot to fame in 1985 when at seventeen years old, he became the youngest player ever to win the men's final at Wimbledon.

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    - My Autobiography
    by Ossie Ardiles
    £12.99

    Ossie Ardiles is one of the most iconic footballers ever to have graced the game. After winning the World Cup with Argentina in 1978, Ossie became the first foreign player to make an impact in England, paving the way for the modern era of multinational teams. He helped Spurs to retain the FA Cup in 1982, and to win the UEFA Cup in 1984.

  • by Joe Simpson
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    While climbing in the Peruvian Andes, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates came face to face with disaster. Simpson fell and broke his leg and then was lost. As his partner Yates was starting to break camp four days later, Simpson crawled in through a blizzard. How both men overcame those four harrowing days is an epic chronicle of fear and friendship.

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    by Bernadette McDonald
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    Or a tragic - and very public - death in the mountains?Years before, as communism was collapsing and the Balkans slid into chaos, Humar was unceremoniously conscripted into a dirty war that he despised, where he observed brutal and inhumane atrocities that disgusted him.

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    by Andy Kirkpatrick
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    Words like boldness, adventure and risk are surely coined especially for Andy Kirkpatrick. As one of the world's accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers, he goes vertically where other climbers fear to tread. This autobiography provides his thirteen-day ascent of Reticent Wall on El Capitan in California - the hardest big-wall climb.

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    by Peter Crouch
    £10.99

    The lofty man of English football gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse at his remarkable rise to the top.

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    - Captain of Hungary
    by Ferenc Puskas
    £12.99

    Provides an account of Ferenc Puskas: his growing up in Soviet-occupied Hungary, travelling the world with the national side and army team Honved, and his different achievements in the game of football.

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    - The Autobiography
    by Severiano Ballesteros
    £10.99

    Now the subject of a major film. Once or twice a generation, an athlete transcends his sport - at last, here's Seve Ballesteros in his own wordsThere are golfers, and there are golfers.

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    - The Autobiography
    by Paul McGrath
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    Quite apart from his all too public struggle with alcoholism, the story runs through the surreal highs and calamitous lows of a life lived habitually on the edge of chaos. It is not just a football story.

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    - The Autobiography
    by Jayne Torvill
    £8.99

    The full, definitive life stories of ice-skating legends Torvill & Dean

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    by Pele
    £9.49

    The SUNDAY TIMES number 1 bestseller -- the extraordinary life story of the greatest footballer ever to play the game.

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    by Gary Imlach
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    Shows how the author faces his growing alienation from the game he was born into, as he revisits key periods in his father's career to build up a picture of his football life and through him a whole era. This book recaptures a lost world and the way it changed, blending the personal and the historical into a soccer story.

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    by Andy Cave
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    At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into Grimethorpe pit. But at weekends Andy escaped from the pithead to a very different world - testing his nerve on the cliffs and mountains around Britain.

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    - Ovett and Coe: The Record Breaking Rivalry
    by Pat Butcher
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    The definitive, fully authorised story of the record-breaking rivalry between London Olympics organiser Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, published to coincide with the 2012 games.

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    - My Journey Back to Life
    by Lance Armstrong
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    Detailing Lance Armstrong's battle with life-threatening testicular cancer and his return to professional cycling, it became a huge bestseller, appealing to fans of cycling as well as cancer survivors inspired by his full and dramatic recovery.

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    by Paul Kimmage
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    A reissue of acclaimed writer Paul Kimmage's classic bestselling sports biography of Tony Cascarino.

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    - An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity
    by Pete Goss
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    Thrilling story of sailing and rescue from international hero, Pete Goss

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    - George Mallory: The Biography of an Everest Hero
    by Peter Gillman
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    A revealing and complete biography of doomed hero George Mallory, which includes previously unpublished letters and family papers

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    by Jack Barlow
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    by Michael Hutchinson
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  • by Peter Lush
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Sports biographies

Sports biographies are a unique way to experience your favorite sports star. They usually contain the best details, and give us an incredibly good understanding of how they have achieved their amazing and athletic physique. Athletes are intriguing in their own way, whether it's Formula 1 or football, being able to get into their mindsets and hear about what they are doing to maintain their strong mentality is instructive. Much of it can also be introduced into daily life, sports biographies most often contain their deepest thoughts and how they get through the days.


Most often we see sports stars and superstars like these mythological people who possess a higher unity than the rest of us. But in most cases they are just people like you and me, which can be hard to see from time to time. Therefore, sports biographies are very exciting and provide perspectives on these people who are not otherwise seen. There are two sides to them, their familiar life on the red carpet and the track, as well as their everyday life at home. Most often we only see a dimension that is on the red carpet and the track. Sports biographies go straight to the heart and give us details on the feelings and thoughts they have had when they have lost and won matches. It's also an incredibly good way to understand them if you're a big fan and want to be like them. Then sports biographies are the perfect way to introduce their daily patterns into your life.



Sports biographies and their learning

Sports Biographies are not only for entertainment, it is as described, also to learn. You can learn a lot from these individuals, they are people who have dedicated everything to what they love. It is incredibly inspiring and can give you the motivation to get started. Many of the stories are also about their mistakes and how they learn from them, as well as when they have failed so heavily that their careers were ruined. How do they get up again? What do they do to achieve the same status and fitness? A look into this part of their stories is incredibly compelling.


Sports biographies and boxing

Have you ever wondered how boxers feel in everyday life? What kind of thoughts do they have, after a fight where they have received many blows to the head or body? It is also an exciting story to explore. All the punches they receive must have an effect on their way of acting with the world, and we have, as it were, also been confirmed by Muhammad Ali, who is still considered the best boxer in the world. He has sadly passed away now, but he struggled with style and logic, he danced around the ring and could fight at a long distance with the long range he possessed. By the end of his career, however, he got Parkinson's and it was omnivorous for the star boxer. Stories like this are what make sports biographies exciting and gain an understanding of the implications of each sport.

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