All American Entertainment Named to Inc. Best Workplaces in 2022. Read more
AAE Named to Inc. Best Workplaces in 2022. Read more
1.800.698.2536
Click to Open Search Bar
All American Speakers Bureau and Celebrity Booking Agency
Click to Open Search Bar
Contact
☰

Pat Croce

Mega-Entrepreneur & Former NBA Team Owner

  Categories:
Basketball, Business Leaders, Business Speakers, Celebrity Headliners, Coaching, Executive Leaders, Featured Speakers, Featured Sports Speakers, Inspirational Speakers, Journalists, Leadership Speakers, Motivation, Personal Growth, Sales, Marketing and Branding, Sports, Sports Inspiration, Sports Motivation, Writers and Journalists
REQUEST BOOKING INFORMATION

Pat Croce Biography

Pat Croce graced the cover of Success magazine as the first person to ascend from the training room to the boardroom of a professional sports team. His remarkable success as a physical therapist and pioneer in the sports medicine field to the colorful leader responsible for the resurrection of the Philadelphia 76ers as an NBA championship contender has been defined as one of the most amazing stories in sports history.

Through his business savvy, dynamic personality, and emphasis on customer service, Croce built Sports Physical Therapists, a sports medicine empire of 40 centers in 11 states, into a top-ten finalist for the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Following the sale of his company, Croce focused his entrepreneurial spirit and indestructible positive attitude on the purchase of the NBAs last place team, the Philadelphia 76ers, in 1996. During his five-year tenure as President, the team rose from worst to first in the NBA standings and broke franchise records in attendance, revenue, merchandise, and consecutive wins on the way to the NBA Championships against the Los Angeles Lakers in 2001.

Croce has served as a commentator on NBA on NBC and the Summer Olympic Games, hosted a nationally syndicated daily show, Pat Croce: Moving In, for Sony Pictures Television, and served as a panel judge on ABCs American Inventor. He just completed a pilot, Family Business, for The History Channel.

Croce continues to fill requests as a nationally renowned motivational speaker, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller I Feel Great and You Will Too!, the motivational tome 110%, and the business book Lead or Get Off the Pot!

He has also authored several books on his piratical passion. They include the historical books Pirate Soul and Pirates of St. Augustine; the children's picture book My Pop-Pop Is a Pirate; and the instructional book The Pirate Handbook.

Croce owns and operates, in conjunction with the University of Florida, the Colonial Quarter living-history museum in St. Augustine, Florida. It opened on March 16, 2013. As of January 2010, Croce serves on the board of directors for Movitas, a mobile technology company focused on the hospitality industry.

Croce was one of the four judges for the second season of ABC's reality television series, American Inventor, which ran from June to August, 2007.

In October 2011, he financed and served on the monumental expedition that located the shipwrecks of Sir Francis Drake.

Croce is the founder of the world renowned St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum. He was the proud recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, featured on the cover of Inc. magazine as The Dale Carnegie of the 21st Century, and honored with A&E Biographys Community Hero Award. He is Chairman of Pat Croce & Company, which has controlling interests in three notable Key West restaurant/bars.

Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Pat Croce and other top speakers and celebrities.

BOOK Pat Croce
Books
Drake's Quest

Drake's Quest

The Pirate Handbook: A Rogue's Guide to Pillage, Plunder, Chaos & Conquest

The Pirate Handbook: A Rogue's Guide to Pillage, Plunder, Chaos & Conquest

Blackbeard

Blackbeard

Pirate Soul

Pirate Soul

Lead or Get Off the Pot!: The Seven Secrets of a Self-Made Leader

Lead or Get Off the Pot!: The Seven Secrets of a Self-Made Leader

Do It Now! (Parchment Journals)

Do It Now! (Parchment Journals)

Speaking Topics

  • I Feel Great and You Will Too! How to Score Big in Life

  • Ten Commandments of Customer Service

  • The Power of Positive Thinking

  • Achieve the Impossible

  • Negotiating for Success

FAQs

  • HOW TO BOOK Pat Croce?

    Our booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure talent like Pat Croce for both live and virtual events for over 15 years. The team at All American Entertainment represents and listens to the needs of organizations and corporations seeking to hire keynote speakers, celebrities or entertainers for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment. Fill out a booking request form for Pat Croce, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get pricing information and check availability for Pat Croce or any other celebrity of your choice.

  • HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BOOK Pat Croce?

    Booking fees for Pat Croce, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. Pricing often varies between live and virtual events. Other factors that can affect speaker fees include the talent's schedule, market conditions, length of presentation, and the location of the event. The live and virtual event speaking fees listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only. In some cases, the actual quote may be above or below the stated range. For the most current fee to hire Pat Croce, please fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak with an experienced booking agent.

  • WHO IS THE AGENT FOR Pat Croce?

    All American Entertainment has successfully secured celebrity talent like Pat Croce for clients worldwide for more than 15 years. As a full-service talent booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Pat Croce for your next private or corporate function.

  • WHAT IS A FULL-SERVICE TALENT BOOKING AGENCY?

    All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. We do not exclusively represent Pat Croce or claim ourselves as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Pat Croce or any other speaker or celebrity on this website. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage.
Check Availability

Tell us about your event!

During normal business hours, we respond to most inquiries within 4 hours.

Users also viewed these speakers:

This website is a resource for event professionals and strives to provide the most comprehensive catalog of thought leaders and industry experts to consider for speaking engagements. A listing or profile on this website does not imply an agency affiliation or endorsement by the talent.

All American Entertainment (AAE) exclusively represents the interests of talent buyers, and does not claim to be the agency or management for any speaker or artist on this site. AAE is a talent booking agency for paid events only. We do not handle requests for donation of time or media requests for interviews, and cannot provide celebrity contact information.

If you are the talent, and wish to request removal from this catalog or report an issue with your profile, please click here.

Pat Croce

Mega-Entrepreneur & Former NBA Team Owner

Travels From:
Pennsylvania, USA
Speaking Fee:
Live Event: $50,000 - $100,000
Virtual Event: Please Contact
More Fee Info
Categories:
Basketball, Business Leaders, Business Speakers, Celebrity Headliners, Coaching, Executive Leaders, Featured Speakers, Featured Sports Speakers, Inspirational Speakers, Journalists, Leadership Speakers, Motivation, Personal Growth, Sales, Marketing and Branding, Sports, Sports Inspiration, Sports Motivation, Writers and Journalists

Pat Croce Biography

Pat Croce graced the cover of Success magazine as the first person to ascend from the training room to the boardroom of a professional sports team. His remarkable success as a physical therapist and pioneer in the sports medicine field to the colorful leader responsible for the resurrection of the Philadelphia 76ers as an NBA championship contender has been defined as one of the most amazing stories in sports history.

Through his business savvy, dynamic personality, and emphasis on customer service, Croce built Sports Physical Therapists, a sports medicine empire of 40 centers in 11 states, into a top-ten finalist for the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Following the sale of his company, Croce focused his entrepreneurial spirit and indestructible positive attitude on the purchase of the NBAs last place team, the Philadelphia 76ers, in 1996. During his five-year tenure as President, the team rose from worst to first in the NBA standings and broke franchise records in attendance, revenue, merchandise, and consecutive wins on the way to the NBA Championships against the Los Angeles Lakers in 2001.

Croce has served as a commentator on NBA on NBC and the Summer Olympic Games, hosted a nationally syndicated daily show, Pat Croce: Moving In, for Sony Pictures Television, and served as a panel judge on ABCs American Inventor. He just completed a pilot, Family Business, for The History Channel.

Croce continues to fill requests as a nationally renowned motivational speaker, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller I Feel Great and You Will Too!, the motivational tome 110%, and the business book Lead or Get Off the Pot!

He has also authored several books on his piratical passion. They include the historical books Pirate Soul and Pirates of St. Augustine; the children's picture book My Pop-Pop Is a Pirate; and the instructional book The Pirate Handbook.

Croce owns and operates, in conjunction with the University of Florida, the Colonial Quarter living-history museum in St. Augustine, Florida. It opened on March 16, 2013. As of January 2010, Croce serves on the board of directors for Movitas, a mobile technology company focused on the hospitality industry.

Croce was one of the four judges for the second season of ABC's reality television series, American Inventor, which ran from June to August, 2007.

In October 2011, he financed and served on the monumental expedition that located the shipwrecks of Sir Francis Drake.

Croce is the founder of the world renowned St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum. He was the proud recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, featured on the cover of Inc. magazine as The Dale Carnegie of the 21st Century, and honored with A&E Biographys Community Hero Award. He is Chairman of Pat Croce & Company, which has controlling interests in three notable Key West restaurant/bars.

Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Pat Croce and other top speakers and celebrities.

BOOK Pat Croce

Pat Croce Books

Drake's Quest
Drake's Quest
The Pirate Handbook: A Rogue's Guide to Pillage, Plunder, Chaos & Conquest
The Pirate Handbook: A Rogue's Guide to Pillage, Plunder, Chaos & Conquest
Blackbeard
Blackbeard
Pirate Soul
Pirate Soul
Lead or Get Off the Pot!: The Seven Secrets of a Self-Made Leader
Lead or Get Off the Pot!: The Seven Secrets of a Self-Made Leader
Do It Now! (Parchment Journals)
Do It Now! (Parchment Journals)

Pat Croce Speaking Topics

  • I Feel Great and You Will Too! How to Score Big in Life

  • Ten Commandments of Customer Service

  • The Power of Positive Thinking

  • Achieve the Impossible

  • Negotiating for Success

FAQs on booking Pat Croce

  • How to book Pat Croce?

    Our booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure talent like Pat Croce for both live and virtual events for over 15 years. The team at All American Entertainment represents and listens to the needs of organizations and corporations seeking to hire keynote speakers, celebrities or entertainers for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment. Fill out a booking request form for Pat Croce, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get pricing information and check availability for Pat Croce or any other celebrity of your choice.

  • How much does it cost to book Pat Croce?

    Booking fees for Pat Croce, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. Pricing often varies between live and virtual events. Other factors that can affect speaker fees include the talent's schedule, market conditions, length of presentation, and the location of the event. The live and virtual event speaking fees listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only. In some cases, the actual quote may be above or below the stated range. For the most current fee to hire Pat Croce, please fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak with an experienced booking agent.

  • Who is the agent for Pat Croce?

    All American Entertainment has successfully secured celebrity talent like Pat Croce for clients worldwide for more than 15 years. As a full-service talent booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Pat Croce for your next private or corporate function.

  • What is a full-service talent booking agency?

    All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. We do not exclusively represent Pat Croce or claim ourselves as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Pat Croce or any other speaker or celebrity on this website. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage.

Pat Croce is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as I Feel Great and You Will Too! How to Score Big in Life, Ten Commandments of Customer Service, The Power of Positive Thinking, Achieve the Impossible and Negotiating for Success. The estimated speaking fee range to book Pat Croce for your event is $50,000 - $100,000. Pat Croce generally travels from PA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are JP Pawliw-Fry, Bill Rancic, Pat Williams, Vince Poscente and Tony Alessandra. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Pat Croce for an upcoming live or virtual event.

BOOK Pat Croce

Pat Croce Speaking Topics

  • I Feel Great and You Will Too! How to Score Big in Life

  • Ten Commandments of Customer Service

  • The Power of Positive Thinking

  • Achieve the Impossible

  • Negotiating for Success

Tell us about your event!

During normal business hours, we respond to most inquiries within 4 hours.

  • Customized Service

    Our agents find the right fit for your event

  • Unparalleled Database

    Full access to all speakers & celebrities

  • One Stop Shopping

    A reliable and unbiased point of contact

  • Logistics Management

    Your personal Logistics Manager who takes care of all event details

Need Quick Answers?

We are happy to help! Call us to speak with a booking agent about your event or specific speaker request.

  1.800.698.2536
Our celebrity booking agents can:

  • Gauge interest and check availability for speaking engagements, appearances or corporate events

  • Provide you with the speaking fee to book Pat Croce or other celebrity appearance fees

  • Give you personal recommendations for the best keynote speakers or celebrities

  • Assist you with any questions you have throughout the talent booking process

Speakers Similar to Pat Croce

This website is a resource for event professionals and strives to provide the most comprehensive catalog of thought leaders and industry experts to consider for speaking engagements. A listing or profile on this website does not imply an agency affiliation or endorsement by the talent.

All American Entertainment (AAE) exclusively represents the interests of talent buyers, and does not claim to be the agency or management for any speaker or artist on this site. AAE is a talent booking agency for paid events only. We do not handle requests for donation of time or media requests for interviews, and cannot provide celebrity contact information.

If you are the talent, and wish to request removal from this catalog or report an issue with your profile, please click here.

TOP