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You Are a Champion

How to Be the Best You Can Be

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You Are a Champion

By: Marcus Rashford, Carl Anka
Narrated by: Katie Warriner, Kenton Thomas
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I want to show you how you can be a champion in almost anything you put your mind to.

Marcus Rashford MBE is famous worldwide for his skills both on and off the pitch – but before he was a Manchester United and England footballer, and long before he started his inspiring campaign to end child food poverty, he was just an ordinary kid from Wythenshawe, South Manchester. Now the nation's favourite footballer wants to show YOU how to achieve your dreams, in this positive and inspiring guide for life.

Written with journalist Carl Anka, You Are a Champion is packed full of stories from Marcus’s own life, plus brilliant advice and top-tips from performance psychologist Katie Warriner. It will show you how to be the very BEST that you can be.

It shows kids how to:
- Be comfortable with who you are – you can't be a champion until you're happy being you!
- Dream big
- Practise like a champion
- Get out of your comfort zone and learn from your mistakes
- Navigate adversity in a positive way
- Find your team
- Use your voice and stand up for others
- Never stop learning

With an afterword by Tim S. Grover, trainer and mentor to Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.

©2021 Marcus Rashford (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International Limited Growing Up & Facts of Life Sports & Outdoors Inspiring Dream Basketball Football

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Critic reviews

Marcus has spoken for, and inspired, millions of children who are from similar backgrounds to him, helping them to see that your current situation does not have to determine where you are going. That is so so powerful. (Siya Kolisi, South African rugby captain and world cup winner)
All stars
Most relevant
Great analogies that I will be using with my boys. Raises my respect for Marcus even more in how he just wants to help and pass on his strong family and friend values.

Enjoyed by 9&7 year old.

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Couldn’t of enjoyed that anymore more than motivating for me to achieve my dreams as a professional footballer as I thought I was close but never been so far away you showed me how hard you need to work in and out of football and to always be a good person aswell 👍

Frankie deane

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It is incredible to think that Marcus Rashford is still only 23 years old. He has made a huge impact on the world so far playing football for Manchester United and England (scoring on his debut for both). He hit the front pages of the papers too in 2020 and for all the right reasons challenging the government to provide free meals to hungry children during the COVID pandemic, and winning.
In this short book, Marcus talks about his own story and what drives him to succeed. It is aimed at young people and he describes it as the sort of book that he would have liked when he was aspiring to greatness. We learn that he is the youngest of five and his love of Coco Pops. He encourages readers to become the best version of themselves they can be and to define success as trying your best and this will lead to increased confidence.
These are wise words indeed and he challenges readers to look at themselves in the mirror for ten seconds every morning and to ask themselves what they want their day to be like.
Learning, of course, never stops and the only competition in life is with yourself. This is an excellent and inspiring book and I liked it so much I bought a copy for my nephew who loves football. Five stars.

Everyone has the potential to be a champion

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Just out Marcus my favourite footballer Is amazing and inspiring
So do not stop read

Epic

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While this book is targeted at children, I found it genuinely helpful as grown-up, too! These are truths that we would all do well to remember.

The book also provides insight into Marcus as a person, showing some of the influences that made him who he is today.

A must-buy for the young people in your life, or for anyone who prefers their self-help books brief and to-the-point.

I'm quite amazed that Marcus and Carl managed to cram so much valuable information and advice into such a small package. In today's busy world, I'd like to see more books like this one! I'll definitely re-listen in the future.

As usual, Marcus Rashford has set an example that puts most of us to shame!

Great advice made simple

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Awesome guy, fantastic book, I haven't got any about football but I've been following this young man since last year because of the awesome work he's doing. A great book by all standard. Simple but fantastic.

Good read, recommended

Awesome

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I was encouraged by him. He is inspirational. I highly recommend you to listen to this book! You will never regret!

Brilliant!

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This book is phenomenal I really enjoyed it and I love football as well this makes me want to train extremely hard to for fill my dream of becoming a footballer

Amazing

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I am a Massive Marcus Rashford fan and I am very Supportive of Everything He does This Book is Amazing and I hope this Book will be a Great help to Many kids that have Dreams of what they want to do this Book encourages the Children from All walks of life of how to be whatever they want to be, I Applaud Marcus for being Such an inspiration to Many. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I am not a child but I am a massive fan o

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I loved it because it inspired me to be me and how he used personal experience.

It believed me to be the best version of myself

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