Enjoy this book featuring NCAA player Lou Holtz of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. A great collector's piece for all Notre Dame Fighting Irish fans! With a strong overtone of moral teaching, college football coaching legend Holtz offers a prosaic but endearing memoir. It's clear from the beginning that Holtz sees coaching as nurturing more than mere athletic achievement it's an opportunity to mold promising student athletes into superlative young men 'Coaching gives one a chance to be successful as well as significant.' Holtz grew up in a hardscrabble West Virginia mining town in the 1940s and '50s, keeping a determinedly working class and strictly religious attitude no matter how high he climbed as a coach. His stories of assistant and then head coaching at institutions from Ohio State to North Carolina State as well as run ins with big names like Bill Cowher and Bill Clinton are full of funny anecdotes and neat little lessons, but they tend to blur in the mind. A standout is Holtz's