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Create Forever Teammates: How Connections and Relationships Are Winning Steps in Life and Sports
Collaboration wins championships. But if that teamwork mindset only exists on game day, players won’t create meaningful connections that outlast the buzzer.
Teams can build relationships that motivate them to win in every aspect of life—when they’re coached with passion, purpose, and understanding.
Full of actionable principles and exercises, this guide will help you cultivate the intrinsic culture of your team to dramatically improve players’ performance, self-awareness, and emotional health. Together, your team can reach their full potential—as athletes and as people.
You’ll discover
• How overzealous parents affect your players.
• Strategies to turn individualism into inclusion on your team.
• Exercises that improve team chemistry through integrity, selflessness, gratitude, and love.
• The H.O.W. Method, a three-step system for accountability.
• Nine leadership skills to help you become a better coach.
Your team wins when they play together to become their very best. Read Create Forever Teammates and inspire connections that reveal your team’s full capacity—in the game and in life.
Teams can build relationships that motivate them to win in every aspect of life—when they’re coached with passion, purpose, and understanding.
Full of actionable principles and exercises, this guide will help you cultivate the intrinsic culture of your team to dramatically improve players’ performance, self-awareness, and emotional health. Together, your team can reach their full potential—as athletes and as people.
You’ll discover
• How overzealous parents affect your players.
• Strategies to turn individualism into inclusion on your team.
• Exercises that improve team chemistry through integrity, selflessness, gratitude, and love.
• The H.O.W. Method, a three-step system for accountability.
• Nine leadership skills to help you become a better coach.
Your team wins when they play together to become their very best. Read Create Forever Teammates and inspire connections that reveal your team’s full capacity—in the game and in life.
182 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 25, 2022
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About the author
Patrick Touhey
1 book1 followerPatrick Touhey is the senior vice president at Allied Solutions, LLC, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in the country. He also was a high school basketball head coach for both boys’ and girls’ teams, as well as a college assistant coach.
When his brother, Hall of Fame basketball coach Kevin Touhey, was dying from lung cancer, Patrick promised him he’d continue his passionate work of athletic coaching. With Elite Performance Too-E, Patrick mentors both coaches and players to tap into their hearts and passions, pursue the spirit of team sports, and become the best version of themselves. Elite Performance Too-E emphasizes intrinsic elements rather than extrinsic metrics that sports often prioritize, such as hours of work, scholarships, and individual statistics. By teaching the value of service, leadership, and team connection, Patrick and Elite Performance Too-E help athletes to overcome the common selfish and self-absorbed mindset and use the athletic experience toward their development as a people and potential leaders. Patrick has played an integral part in coaching multiple teams to win state championships and reach their highest potential.
When his brother, Hall of Fame basketball coach Kevin Touhey, was dying from lung cancer, Patrick promised him he’d continue his passionate work of athletic coaching. With Elite Performance Too-E, Patrick mentors both coaches and players to tap into their hearts and passions, pursue the spirit of team sports, and become the best version of themselves. Elite Performance Too-E emphasizes intrinsic elements rather than extrinsic metrics that sports often prioritize, such as hours of work, scholarships, and individual statistics. By teaching the value of service, leadership, and team connection, Patrick and Elite Performance Too-E help athletes to overcome the common selfish and self-absorbed mindset and use the athletic experience toward their development as a people and potential leaders. Patrick has played an integral part in coaching multiple teams to win state championships and reach their highest potential.
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July 27, 2022
As a former and long-time basketball coach, I bring a bias to books about youth sports. I favor values-based content, explorations into how athletics prepare young athletes to become contributing citizens, coveted work colleagues, cherished life partners, and, fundamentally, kind human beings. From that perspective, Create Forever Teammates, How Connections and Relationships are Winning Steps in Life and Sports, by Patrick Touhey, gets high marks.
Well-written and well-organized, the book’s cornerstone is that Mr. Touhey gets it. The author draws on a wealth of personal and professional experience, as he heartwarmingly assumes the teaching mantle of his mentor and late brother Kevin. Mr. Touhey instructs ably about the internal forces that drive athletics, the good and the bad, the inspirational and the regressive, and the joy and the frustration. He knows why athletes stumble, how coaches fail, and what both can do to overcome setback, rise to the occasion, and over time become the best persons they can be.
Mr. Touhey isn’t content to talk the talk. He is transparent and self-critical, owning and learning from his own mistakes, and putting his lessons, ideas, and principles into practical application for the reader. The book contains various exercises and problem-solving suggestions that implement the book’s ambitious mission. Reviewing his recommendations, readers will be compelled to apply them to their lives and experiences, no matter what their athletic frame of reference. Mr. Touhey espouses human values common to us all.
The one shortcoming is the chapter on parents. There Mr. Touhey analyzes how parents interfere with the athletic experience of their children. While he offers explanations for the behavior, he treats the subject with kid gloves, almost apologetic about parental misdeeds. As a result, in the admirable quest to be politic and positive, he misses an opportunity to call it like it is, that the most insidious and ingrained problem is parents kidnapping the athletic experience from their children by living vicariously through them and dishonoring the clear boundaries that separate parental roles in athletic programs from those of coaches and other athletic personnel.
That minor blip aside, Create Forever Teammates is a refreshing blend of heart, intelligence, and passion, trumpeting core values, none more essential than the enduring impact of human connection. It is, more than anything, a community building work, a blueprint for how to build a culture, how we should see and conduct ourselves in relation to each other and how, working in concert, we can build better lives for us all. Anyone in a position of responsibility in athletics would be well-served to read this book, to become a better mentor, enhance their contributions to sports programs, and, not the least, grow personally. More than earning a spot on a bookshelf, Create Forever Teammates warrants an accessible place for easy frequent reference. Brother Kevin would be proud.
Well-written and well-organized, the book’s cornerstone is that Mr. Touhey gets it. The author draws on a wealth of personal and professional experience, as he heartwarmingly assumes the teaching mantle of his mentor and late brother Kevin. Mr. Touhey instructs ably about the internal forces that drive athletics, the good and the bad, the inspirational and the regressive, and the joy and the frustration. He knows why athletes stumble, how coaches fail, and what both can do to overcome setback, rise to the occasion, and over time become the best persons they can be.
Mr. Touhey isn’t content to talk the talk. He is transparent and self-critical, owning and learning from his own mistakes, and putting his lessons, ideas, and principles into practical application for the reader. The book contains various exercises and problem-solving suggestions that implement the book’s ambitious mission. Reviewing his recommendations, readers will be compelled to apply them to their lives and experiences, no matter what their athletic frame of reference. Mr. Touhey espouses human values common to us all.
The one shortcoming is the chapter on parents. There Mr. Touhey analyzes how parents interfere with the athletic experience of their children. While he offers explanations for the behavior, he treats the subject with kid gloves, almost apologetic about parental misdeeds. As a result, in the admirable quest to be politic and positive, he misses an opportunity to call it like it is, that the most insidious and ingrained problem is parents kidnapping the athletic experience from their children by living vicariously through them and dishonoring the clear boundaries that separate parental roles in athletic programs from those of coaches and other athletic personnel.
That minor blip aside, Create Forever Teammates is a refreshing blend of heart, intelligence, and passion, trumpeting core values, none more essential than the enduring impact of human connection. It is, more than anything, a community building work, a blueprint for how to build a culture, how we should see and conduct ourselves in relation to each other and how, working in concert, we can build better lives for us all. Anyone in a position of responsibility in athletics would be well-served to read this book, to become a better mentor, enhance their contributions to sports programs, and, not the least, grow personally. More than earning a spot on a bookshelf, Create Forever Teammates warrants an accessible place for easy frequent reference. Brother Kevin would be proud.
April 12, 2022
Patrick Touhey does a remarkable job in this book demonstrating the power behind creating meaningful relationships and the potential successes that are a consequence of simply building a stronger connection with those around you. An easy (yet involved) read, this book provides real-life examples in strategic fashion to help those who are looking to build a robust intrinsic culture. As a former athlete that competed through the collegiate level, I can provide testimony that several of the lessons in this book directly resulted to success on the court for the teams I played for. Even more important, however, I can provide testimony that several of the lessons in this book directly resulted to meaningful friendships & relationships that help me win in aspects of life that go way beyond the court now that I’m no longer playing. I’ll take these lessons with me as a young professional and am looking forward to sharing the book with those around me that are looking to find a way to reach their full potential.
June 7, 2022
I’m a little biased, but Patrick Touhey does an excellent job of building upon the legacy of Kevin Touhey while adding his own unique life experiences. The book is a must for all coaches as well as teachers, leaders, mentors, and anyone who works with groups of people.
May 12, 2023
Excellent book. Full of life lessons for everyone not just basketball players.
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