"Paddy on the Hardwood" was the best book I read in 2006."

--Dan McGrath, Chicago Tribune (Read the Review)

"Paddy on the Hardwood is hilarious, heartbreaking, and touching. I'm an avid reader and this is the best sports book I've read in a good long while."

-- Jerry West, NBA Legend

"No reader will come away from this irresistible, honest and deeply human account without a profound appreciation for Ireland and the beguiling power of its people and culture. Paddy on the Hardwood is a basketball book, to be sure--but also one about questing and, ultimately, finding. And it's all the richer for how it engages things that seem distant from sports, but in the end aren't so unrelated at all."

--Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated, senior writer and author of Big Game, Small World