By Lou Holtz
When I die and other people observe that i cannot be resurrected in 3 days, they're going to overlook me. that's the approach it may be. For purposes identified basically to God, i used to be requested to put in writing an autobiography. most folk who knew me becoming up did not imagine i might ever learn a publication, not to mention write one.
—Lou Holtz
Few humans within the historical past of school activities were extra influential or had a much bigger effect than Lou Holtz. Winner of the 3 nationwide trainer of the yr honors, the one trainer ever to steer six diversified colleges to season-ending bowl video games, and the ninth-winningest trainer in university soccer heritage, Holtz continues to be educating and training, even supposing he's now not at the gridiron.
In his such a lot telling paintings to this point, the fellow nonetheless referred to as "Coach" by way of all who move his course unearths what prompted a rail-thin 135-pound child with marginal educational credentials and a stated speech obstacle to play and trainer collage soccer, and to turn into the most sought-after motivational audio system in background. With unflinching honesty and his trademark dry wit, Holtz is going deep, giving us the intimate info of the folk who formed his lifestyles and the selections he could make that formed the lives of such a lot of others.
His is a storied profession, and Holtz offers a frank and inside of examine the demanding situations he overcame to show round the courses at William and Mary, North Carolina kingdom, Arkansas, and Minnesota. From transforming into up in East Liverpool, Ohio, to his early days as a graduate assistant on the college of Iowa, to his nationwide championship runs at Notre Dame and his ultimate seasons at the sidelines in South Carolina, Lou Holtz supplies his most sensible, a poignant, humorous, and instructive check out a existence good lived.
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I was 165 pounds and the smallest player on the team. I was a junior, a little late in my collegiate career to be going out for a sport, but I wasn’t going to graduate in four years anyway. When my mother fi lled out my initial registration form, she and I didn’t realize that ROTC and physical education didn’t count as full credits. Because I took both, my stint at Kent State would take four and a half years. This didn’t sit well with my grandparents, who had difficulty understanding 32 how you could go to school for four years, pass every course, and still not graduate.
Nothing was more important than belief in myself. The previous summer I’d been taught a valuable lesson about taking on new challenges, one I’ve tried to teach to every athlete I’ve coached. My seven best friends and I were swimming in the Ohio River, as we were prone to do on hot summer days, when one of our group came up with the bright idea that we should swim all the way across the river, about a mile at that point. Whoever finished last would walk back across the bridge, get the car, and pick everybody else up.
Every job was important, and every soldier was expected to give nothing less than his best in every circumstance. There is a higher calling when you are a member of the armed services. You learn that there are things more important than yourself and your career, things worth sacrificing, fighting, and even dying for. That clarity appealed to me. When my six months were up, I thought long and hard about accepting a regular Army commission, and even had the paperwork delivered to my quarters. But I knew that my true calling was on the football field.