All In: Driven by Passion, Energy, and Purpose

by Porter Moser, Jean Dolores Schmidt (Foreword)

Porter Moser—the new head coach of Oklahoma men’s basketball team and one of the most inspiring and driven basketball coaches today—offers a practical and motivating guide to help build character, transform failure into success, find purpose, and live an authentic life through energy and positivity.

Porter Moser knows what it’s like to live and work with determination, passion, and grit. He also knows what it’s like to keep front-and-center the core values of faith, family, honesty, and integrity. Whether it’s recruiting, hiring, running drills, or just living day-to-day Moser walks the walk and talks the talk. Not that it’s always easy, but in All In he shows us that with enough practice it sure can look that way.
 
Drawn from Moser’s life as a son, husband, father, and winning coach, this collection of inspiring, poignant and rousing lessons drives home the importance of being “all in”—meaning, fully dedicated to a task at hand. Revealing his ups and downs as both a college player and later as a coach, All In shows how Moser built his all-positive, no-negativity work ethic; how a second chance from legendary coach Rick Majerus helped Moser achieve new levels of success; and how, in 2018, he guided the No. 11 seed Ramblers through one of the most inspiring Cinderella stories in college sports history.
 
With a rousing foreword from Sr. Jean, the lively and wise 100-year old chaplain of the Loyola Ramblers— All In offers sage advice for athletes, coaches, recruiters, sports fans, and anyone looking to develop the skills to lead on the court or in life.

2021 PubWest Book Design Awards, Bronze Sports/Fitness/Recreation
2021 Illumination Book Awards, Silver Biography/Memoir-Inspirational

Genres: Sports

161 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 16, 2020

Reviews

[Michael Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great book about building Team Culture in sports, business and life. The book is the life story Porter Moser journey of family growth, educational background and steps in getting too and development as a Division 1 college basketball program at Loyola University of Chicago. He talks of his faith and how that has also played a part in the culture of team building. He talks about the little things that need to be done to be successful. He talks about being the right fit for recruits when they go to a campus and being to fit in with everyone else and not just an athlete on campus. He talks about the Jesuit background of college he attended and the influence on his life and that continued influence at LUC. This book is good for students being recruited, coaches who influence them and for the families everyone reacts to.

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Porter Moser will become the next great basketball coach - he is creating a special program at Loyola University (Chicago), and they will continue to flourish and reach higher plateaus with his leadership. An inspirational account.

[Luke Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Porter Moser is one of my favorite basketball coaches. Reading about his experiences in life and basketball was inspiring. Good teaching tips for those who want to get into coaching. Most coaches dream to build up players the way he has throughout his career.

[Noah Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was an inspirational book.

[Steven Neal · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fantastic coach whose integrity and grit is to be admired.

[Adam H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entertaining and inspiring read. Could not put the book down.

[Vincent Derr · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a short book by the former Coach of the Loyola of Chicago men’s basketball coach. Coach Moser is now in his first year at Oklahoma. Porter first came to prominence when he led his Loyola team and Sister Jean to the Final Four. My overall impression of this book is, yeah it was good. The second half of the book is significantly better than the first. The book starts with a lot of rah rah, energy, and power of positive thinking. Which have their place but can fall flat and shallow. Moser early on keeps using the phrase “that’s just who I am”, which can make it seem impossible to attain his level of energy and positivity. Leaders must lead in an authentic way, be who they are as a leader. Leaders who fake being the energy and positivity guy are seen for who they are and are soon leading no one. The second half of the book goes into more practical if not basic principles of leadership. Along the way you learn a little bit about Porter, his team, Sister Jean, and the Jesuit life. Without the second half of the book, I would have rated this much worse, but Porter’s storytelling and Jesuit education come in strong in the second half. It’s worth a quick listen.