Harnessing anger : the inner discipline of athletic excellence
To the six-time Olympian and 1984 bronze medalist, "harnessing anger" means controlling one's own fury and channeling it in a positive direction. His success is what he once called "that strange white sport" is just one expression of the self-discipline that led him to beat the odds. The multiracial son of an African-American father and a Japanese mother, he was raised by his mother alone in poverty in Newark, New Jersey. Westbrook tells how learning the martial art of fencing led him to conquer the obstacles of growing up poor and biracial to become one of the greatest American fencers of all time
Print Book, English, 1998
1st pbk. ed
Seven Stories Press, New York, 1998