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- Don Yaeger
Don Yaeger,
motivational speaker, keynote speaker, four-time New York
Times best-selling author, thrills audiences with his stories
as a professional speaker and messages about what makes the
great ones great!
In a keynote speech, Don Yaeger said "Success rarely
presents itself without reason or cause. People do not simply
find success, but rather put themselves in a position to earn
it by how well they prepare and how hard they work to overcome
the challenges and adversity they face in life."
Don Yaeger has witnessed the success stories behind some of
the greatest sports figures of our time, and the lessons he's
he shares with audiences all over the world as a motivational
speaker and professional speaker, gives the groups the true
path to success.
Don Yeaeger
is one of only 200 authors in the world to have four books
on the New York Times Best Seller List.
Few can
lay claim to as exciting and colorful career as Don. In his
20-plus years as a journalist, he has conducted interviews
with some of the greatest athletes of our time - Michael Jordan,
Mia Hamm, Emmitt Smith, Serena Williams, Jimmy Connors and
countless others. He has lived with Walter Payton, writing
the NFL legend's autobiography as Payton courageously battled
cancer, and even interviewed the President of the United States
in the Oval Office.
A
1984 graduate of Ball
State University
with degrees in both journalism and history, Yaeger began
his career in journalism as a reporter for the San Antonio
Light where he rose through the ranks to pen investigative
features for the daily. He later moved on to the Dallas Morning
News. Following his stint in Dallas,
Yaeger worked as a political editor for the Florida Times-Union.
He is also a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award
and has been included three times in Best American
Sportswriting.
After
four years, he dedicated himself solely to the pursuit of
writing books. Yaeger's first book, Undue Process: The NCAA's
Injustice For All, was published by Sagamore Publishers in
1990. He has since gone on to write ten other sports-related
books and co-authored the highly-publicized New York Times
Best-seller, 1998's Sports Book of Year, Pros & Cons:
The Criminals Who Play in the NFL. In the fall of 2000 Don
published Never Die Easy, The Autobiography of
Walter Payton with Random House. It became a New York Times
Best-seller. Recently, his book, Ya Gotta Believe, about the
battle baseball legend Tug McGraw fought against cancer also
became an instant Times bestseller.
After
several years of freelancing for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Don joined
the magazine's staff full-time in July 1996. Two years, later
he was promoted to Associate Editor, where his work was to
cover not just sporting events but the legal issues, controversial
happenings and major issues affecting the world of sports.
Born
and raised in Hawaii,
Yaeger has traveled extensively. The Dominican
Republic, Honduras,
Japan and
Great Britain
can be counted among the countries in which he has resided.
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