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| rod macqueen biography: Secrets of Winning Coaches Revealed David Becker, Scott Hill, 2012-05-30 Discover the winning secrets to peak performance in the National Bestselling and 2nd Edition book, Secrets of Winning Coaches Revealed. The first in a series of books, it imparts the collective wisdom of Australia?s finest coaches using their personal stories and insights.The book is aimed at athletes, sports parents, teachers, coaches and business leaders and focuses specifically on key personal and developmental insights which aim to fast track a young athlete to individual excellence not only in their sport but in life. Some of the coaches featured include: Wayne Bennett (rugby league), Norma Plummer (netball), Lindsay Gaze (basketball), Frank Farina (soccer) Ric Charlesworth (hockey), Rod Macqueen (rugby union), Ron Barassi (AFL), Laurie Lawrence (swimming) and many more.Whether you want to create a winning environment in sport or business, you can learn from the ?master? coaches who have nurtured success attributes in athletes and managed to foster environments of success and have taken athletes to the limits of their ability. |
| rod macqueen biography: My Life and Rugby Eddie Jones, 2019-11-21 Winner of the Daily Telegraph Rugby Book of the Year The Sunday Times bestselling rugby book of the year Brilliant, honest, combative – Eddie Jones is a true legend of world rugby and remains an enigmatic figure in the game. In My Life and Rugby he tells his story for the first time, including the full inside account of England’s 2019 World Cup campaign. He describes his experience growing up in a tough working-class area of Sydney, where he first played rugby, and how he learnt from the extreme highs and lows of his own playing career – the numerous successes but also the painful disappointment of never playing for Australia. He tells how he then embarked on a coaching career that has seen him become one of the most experienced and decorated coaches in Rugby Union, spanning four World Cups and three finals. His successes have included masterminding England’s spectacular victory over New Zealand in the 2019 World Cup and engineering the sport’s most stunning upset when Japan beat South Africa in 2015. My Life and Rugby is the story of one of the most compelling and singular figures in rugby. Told with unflinching honesty, this is the ultimate book for all fans of the sport. Written with Donald McRae, twice winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and three-time Sports Feature Writer of the Year, My Life and Rugby is the story of one of the most compelling and singular figures in rugby. Told with unflinching honesty, this is the ultimate rugby book for all fans of the sport. A Best Book of the Year – Daily Mail, Sunday Times, The Times |
| rod macqueen biography: The Coaches David Becker, Scott Hill, 2010 Discover how some of Australia¿s most successful sports coaches think and find out the skills they use to coach a winning team or athlete. |
| rod macqueen biography: One Step Ahead Rod Macqueen, Kevin Hitchcock, 2001 Autobiography of leading Australian rugby coach Rod Macqueen. Macqueen coached the Australian Wallabies to their Tri Nations and World Cup victories while running his own multimillion dollar business. Offers lessons and philosophies learned from his life experiences, and advice on how others can implement these strategies to overcome problems and succeed in all fields of life. Foreword by Ian McIntosh, former national rugby coach of South Africa. Includes colour photos, mini biography of Macqueen's awards and test records, and subject index. Hitchcock is a journalist, former Director of News at Channel Ten, and author of 'Walk With Me'. |
| rod macqueen biography: One Step Ahead Rod Macqueen, Kevin Hitchcock, 2003 World Cup edition self help guide by former Australian Wallabies coach Rod Macqueen, first published in 2001. Looks at how Macqueen applied lessons from life and a multimillion dollar business to coaching rugby teams. Offers lessons and philosophies learned from his life experiences, and advice on how others can implement these strategies to overcome problems and succeed in all fields of life. Foreword by Ian McIntosh. Includes colour photos, mini biography of Macqueen's awards and test records and subject index. Hitchcock is a journalist, former Director of News at Channel Ten, and author of 'Walk With Me'. |
| rod macqueen biography: Fromelles and Pozières Peter FitzSimons, 2015-11-02 THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial describes as 'the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history. Just days later, three Australian Divisions attacked German positions at nearby Pozières, and over the next six weeks they suffered another 23,000 casualties. Of that bitter battle, the great Australian war correspondent Charles Bean would write, ‘The field of Pozières is more consecrated by Australian fighting and more hallowed by Australian blood than any field which has ever existed . . .’ Yet the sad truth is that, nearly a century on from those battles, Australians know only a fraction of what occurred. This book brings the battles back to life and puts the reader in the moment, illustrating both the heroism displayed and the insanity of the British plan. With his extraordinary vigour and commitment to research, Peter FitzSimons shows why this is a story about which all Australians can be proud. And angry. ______________________________________________ PRAISE FOR PETER FITZSIMONS 'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times '[FitzSimons] knows how to make words race like eager sled dogs on their homeward run.' Newcastle Herald 'Meticulously researched, well-written and incredibly presented.' Weekend Notes |
| rod macqueen biography: Challenging Beliefs Tim Noakes, 2012-03-05 Tim Noakes is one of the world’s leading authorities on the science behind sport and a successful sportsman in his own right. Through a lifetime of research, he has developed key scientific concepts in sport that have not only redefined the way elite athletes and teams approach their professions, but challenged conventional global thinking in these areas. In this new and updated edition of Challenging Beliefs, Noakes shares his views on everything from the myths perpetuated by the sports-drink industry to the prevalence of banned substances, the need to make rugby a safer sport and the benefits of a high-protein, low-carb diet. The teams and athletes with whom Noakes has worked make fascinating backdrops to these topics, highlighting the importance of science in sport in human terms. In providing an intimate look at the golden threads running through Noakes’s life and career, this remarkable book reveals the landmark theories and principles generated by one of the greatest minds in the history of sports science. |
| rod macqueen biography: Number Nine Dream Robert Howley, Graham Clutton, 2011-11-25 Rob Howley was a late developer in terms of playing international rugby. But the Cardif, Wales and British Lions scrum half has more than made up for lost time. In Number Nine Dream, Howley looks back at his career, including his injury heartache, his late development, the pain of seeing a friend temporarily paralysed and the various scrapes with officialdom he has been involved in throughout his career. He talks in detail about the teething problems of professionalism and how he, one of Welsh rugby's all-time great players, has on more than one occasion been issued with an ultimatum by the West Wales Under 11s, Rob Howley was desperate to realise his boyhood ambition - to play senior reugby for his country. Injuries and subsequent operations set back his progress and when he finally returned to action, courtesy of a local valley faith healer, he found himself involved in one of the most controversial transfers in Welsh rugby history. Now a seaconed international and British Lion, Howley tells a story of pride, passion and extreme personal pain. Number Nine Dream is a compelling recollection of events on and off the pitch and highlights exactly what goes on in rugby's corridors of power and behind the changing-room doors. |
| rod macqueen biography: Arm-ball to Zooter Lawrence Booth, 2007-06-07 What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits’ cynicism. Arm-ball to Zooter is a witty guide to the peculiarities of the game, its history and major figures; cricket-lovers might find their own pet hates confirmed; cricket newcomers might be amazed at what cricket-lovers have been up to all these years. |
| rod macqueen biography: The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union Gordon Bray, 2024-06-25 Fully illustrated profiles of the most legendary Australian rugby union players. Hardcover and jacket gift book which names a best of the best 15-strong line-up of Australian rugby union players. Each Immortal player named is profiled in a dedicated chapter with career stats and multiple action images. There is also a group of honourable mentions and an Immortals Wallaby side. Features 100 photographs and key statistics. The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union celebrates the greatest players to wear the green and gold for the Wallabies. It takes the Immortals concept made famous elsewhere in the sporting world and applies it to the 15-player game. Gordon Bray, the voice of rugby in Australia, chooses his XV Immortals, telling the remarkable stories behind pioneering and modern-day Wallabies. |
| rod macqueen biography: Dictionary of National Biography Leslie Stephen, 1895 |
| rod macqueen biography: The Dictionary of National Biography Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee, 1917 |
| rod macqueen biography: The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee, 1922 |
| rod macqueen biography: Victory at Villers-Bretonneux Peter FitzSimons, 2016-10-31 It’s early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia – immediately suing for peace with Germany – means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser’s soldiers can now be transferred from there to the Western Front. On the other, now that America has entered the war, it means that two million American soldiers are also on their way, to tip the scales of war to the Allies. The Germans, realising that their only hope is striking at the Allied lines first, do exactly that, and on the morning of 21 March 1918, the Kaiserschlacht, the Kaiser’s battle, is launched – the biggest set-piece battle the world has ever seen. Across a 45-mile front, no fewer than two million German soldiers hurl themselves at the Allied lines, with the specific intention of splitting the British and French forces, and driving all the way through to the town of Villers-Bretonneux, at which point their artillery will be able to rain down shells on the key train-hub town of Amiens, thus throttling the Allied supply lines. For nigh on two weeks, the plan works brilliantly, and the Germans are able to advance without check, as the exhausted British troops flee before them, together with tens of thousands of French refugees. In desperation, the British commander, General Douglas Haig, calls upon the Australian soldiers to stop the German advance, and save Villers-Bretonneux. If the Australians can hold this, the very gate to Amiens, then the Germans will not win the war. 'It's up to us, then,' one of the Diggers writes in his diary. Arriving at Villers-Bretonneux just in time, the Australians are indeed able to hold off the Germans, launching a vicious counterattack that hurls the Germans back the first time. And then, on Anzac Day 1918, when the town falls after all to the British defenders, it is again the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the entire battle. Not for nothing does the primary school at Villers-Bretonneux have above every blackboard, to this day, 'N’oublions jamais, l’Australie.' Never forget Australia. And they never have. ______________________________________________ PRAISE FOR PETER FITZSIMONS 'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times '[FitzSimons] knows how to make words race like eager sled dogs on their homeward run.' Newcastle Herald 'Meticulously researched, well-written and incredibly presented.' Weekend Notes |
| rod macqueen biography: KP: The Autobiography Kevin Pietersen, 2014-10-09 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Outrageous, audacious, jaw-dropping' SUNDAY TIMES 'An essential read' DAILY MAIL 'Utterly captivating' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Hugely entertaining' GUARDIAN The fascinating life story of professional cricketer Kevin Pietersen, MBE, from his childhood in South Africa to his experiences as one of the leading lights in the world of international cricket. Kevin was dropped from the England squad in February 2014, seemingly calling time on an international career that began nearly ten years earlier. The decision puzzled many observers - although the England team had failed miserably in the Ashes tour of 2013-14, Kevin was the tourists' leading run scorer across the series, and he remains the country's highest run scorer of all time across all formats of the game. Kevin reveals all in his autobiography, telling the stories behind the many other highs and lows of his incredible career. Giving readers the full story of his life, from his childhood in South Africa to his experiences as one of the leading lights in the world of international cricket, KP is an autobiography that entertains and fascinates readers in equal measure. |
| rod macqueen biography: History's Greatest Automotive Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed Matt Stone, Preston Lerner, 2012-11-30 The automotive world is filled with crazy stories, mysteries, myths, rumors, and legends. This book compiles them all, from subjects such as racing, manufacturing, crime, pop culture, and mechanical, explains their origins and where the truth lies-- |
| rod macqueen biography: The MacQueens of Queensdale Annabella Bunting (MacCallum) MacElyea, 1916 |
| rod macqueen biography: The Times Index , 2010 Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement. |
| rod macqueen biography: Driven to Succeed Rod McQueen, Susan M. Papp, 2012-10-20 Hungarian-born Frank Hasenfratz fled his native land in 1956 after the revolution to free his nation from Soviet domination failed. He eventually settled in Guelph, Ontario, where he founded Linamar, now the second-largest maker of auto parts in Canada. This is Frank's story as well as that of the company he created. |
| rod macqueen biography: Index to Artistic Biography: K-Z Patricia Pate Havlice, 2002 This volume is an attempt at providing an index for the location of artists' biographies. It includes works in ten languages, and for each artist includes the following: the artist's name, dates, nationality, and media employed. A three-letter code is used to list the volume in the bibliography which includes the artists' biography. Entries include variant spellings, pseudonyms, and alternate names. Artists are also indexed under variant names. As an example, Leonardo da Vinci can be located under both L and V, with appropriate cross references. |
| rod macqueen biography: The Guardian Index , 2003 |
| rod macqueen biography: Notes and Queries , 1908 |
| rod macqueen biography: Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index , 1975 |
| rod macqueen biography: International Books in Print , 1998 |
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| rod macqueen biography: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art , 1901 |
| rod macqueen biography: W. Baynes and Son's General Catalogue of Second-hand Books for 1821; W. Baynes and Son, 1821 |
| rod macqueen biography: Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art , 1896 |
| rod macqueen biography: BMJ , 2004 |
| rod macqueen biography: The Last Happy Year Rod Coneybeare, 1993 The Last Happy Year: A Novel by Rod Coneybeare |
| rod macqueen biography: “The” Athenaeum , 1898 |
| rod macqueen biography: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle James Silk Buckingham, John Sterling, Frederick Denison Maurice, Henry Stebbing, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Thomas Kibble Hervey, William Hepworth Dixon, Norman Maccoll, Vernon Horace Rendall, John Middleton Murry, 1898 |
| rod macqueen biography: The history of Oswestry William Cathrall, 1855 |
| rod macqueen biography: University Bulletin University of California (System), 1970 |
| rod macqueen biography: Literature , 1901 |
| rod macqueen biography: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in Scotland , 1891 |
| rod macqueen biography: A Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Signet Library. 1882-1887 Signet Library (Great Britain), 1891 |
| rod macqueen biography: British Books , 1918 |
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ROD Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of ROD is a straight slender stick growing on or cut from a tree or bush. How to use rod in a sentence.
Rod - Wikipedia
Birch rod, made out of twigs from birch or other trees for corporal punishment; Ceremonial rod, used to indicate a position of authority; Connecting rod, main, coupling, or side rod, in a …
ROD | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
ROD definition: 1. a long, thin pole made of wood or metal: 2. a type of cell in the retina (= part at the back of…. Learn more.
Rod - definition of rod by The Free Dictionary
A thin straight piece or bar of material, such as metal or wood, often having a particular function or use, as: a. A fishing rod. b. A piston rod. c. An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of …
Rod - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
A rod is a bar or a stick, like the curtain rods in your windows or the steel rods inside the structure of a building that help make it sturdy. A rod can be a staff, like a walking stick, or a metal bar …
rod noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes
Definition of rod noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
What does rod mean? - Definitions.net
A rod is a thin, straight piece or object, often cylindrical in shape, made of several materials such as wood, metal, plastic, or glass. It is typically used to support, guide, or transmit mechanical …
ROD definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
A rod is a long, thin metal or wooden bar. ...a 15-foot thick roof that was reinforced with steel rods. 2. See also fishing rod, lightning rod. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. …
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