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One Yard Short: Turning Your Defeats into Victories

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If you are a Christian and you coach any sport, especially football you should take a look at his book. I was so moved by it I was on the brink of tears about 2-3 times. It talks about letting God control your life, and if you put full complete faith in HIM as your savior, you will be able to live and lead a very gratifying life. I highly recommend this book.

Coach Steckel has written an inspiring and entertaining book. I'm a football coach myself and can relate to the highs and lows of the profession as Coach Steckel explains in this book. Coaches if you want a book to lift you and show you how God can lead a man thru the highs and lows of life this is it. God bless you Coach Steckel.

This was a GREAT book! It sounded like something I would like because I am a huge Titans fan & watched the super bowl when Kevin Dyson needed that extra yard, so I asked for it for Christmas. I couldn't put it down. I put off finishing it though because I felt like I had a connection to Les & his wife,and I knew he didn't have another book out. It was very inspirational. Football fan or not, anyone who likes fair play & God will love this easy to read book! Thanks to Les for taking time to write it!

I received the correct amount of the right item in a timely fashion. I have experienced this before and would never hesitate to order from you.

Coach Steckel opens up his NFL coaching career disappointments, reviews his own shortcomings and outlines his effort to resolve them. Guided by his "faith and family" first philosophy, he found his greatest satisfaction came in coaching his son's high school football team. Steckel now leads the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a national group that coaches youth across the nation in life skills along with sports.

I remembered Les Steckel when he replaced and after a one-year disaster, was replaced by Bud Grant as the coach of Minnesota Vikings.

I was suprised by Steckel's candidness as he mentioned his metamorphosis as a person who went from driven coach to repentant Christian through is work with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. His story is a story of perspective.