I am halfway through Cash's novel, and so far it is just reiterating why I have idolized her since I was in 5th grade. Having played collegiate basketball, dealing with the ups and downs in high school and college, fighting through back spasms, playing with stress fractures, but always having my faith and family to lean on, I realize Swin and I have so much in common. Swin truly is an inspiration to me and I'm thankful for that.
Toughness is a novel that has had fantastic reviews. All coaches, no matter what sport, have been told to read this. All competitors, regardless if they play basketball or not, are told to read this. Every chapter has personal stories that teaches, develops and emphasizes the necessity of being tough, not just in basketball, but in life. Any book written by Jay Bilas is worth reading, I mean for goodness sakes, the man has fantastic basketball knowledge. One word of advice, follow Jay Bilas on Twitter because his tweets are meaningful and quite funny as well!
I love basketball, and I love books about basketball. Every book I've read by anyone with a high basketball IQ has post-it notes and highlighters all throughout them. Thank you Easter Bunny for these two books!
"To give up is to fail, because in losing you may have
still won, because within you have conquered your
fear of never giving up." -Swin Cash
xx- A Basketball Junkie
P.S. You'll never believe this.... I tweeted a photo of these two books to Swin Cash and Jay Bilas and I got a response back from BOTH of them!
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