Legendary football coach and motivational speaker Lou Holtz writes his
inspirational autobiography, from his years in the military to making
Notre Dame a national champion and turning South Carolina into a winning
program.
Few people in the history of college sports have been more influential
or had a bigger impact than Lou Holtz. Winner of the three national
Coach of the Year honors, the only coach ever to lead six different
schools to season-ending bowl games, and the ninth-winningest coach in
college football history, Holtz is still teaching and coaching, although
he is no longer on the gridiron.
In his most telling work to date, the man still known as "Coach" by all
who cross his path reveals what motivated a rail-thin 135-pound kid with
marginal academic credentials and a pronounced speech impediment to play
and coach college football, and to become one of the most sought-after
motivational speakers in history. With unflinching honesty and his
trademark dry wit, Holtz goes deep, giving us the intimate details of
the people who shaped his life and the decisions he would make that
shaped the lives of so many others.
His is a storied career, and Holtz provides a frank and inside look at
the challenges he overcame to turn around the programs at William and
Mary, North Carolina State, Arkansas, and Minnesota. From growing up in
East Liverpool, Ohio, to his early days as a graduate assistant at the
University of Iowa, to his national championship runs at Notre Dame and
his final seasons on the sidelines in South Carolina, Lou Holtz gives
his best, a poignant, funny, and instructive look into a life well
lived.
