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Wins, Losses, and Lessons
Lou Holtz
William Morrow
August 2006
On Sale: August 15, 2006
336 pages
ISBN: 0060840803
EAN: 9780060840808
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
When I die and people realize that I will not be
resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is
the way it should be. For reasons known only to God, I was
asked to write an autobiography. Most people who knew me
growing up didn't think I would ever read a book, let
alone write one. –Lou Holtz 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.
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