No Quitters Here: Quest for the Dome | 
| Author: Brenda Woodward
Publisher: Dynamic Pub.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2177563
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 520
ISBN: 0615122183
EAN: 9780615122182
ASIN: 0615122183
Publication Date: December 2002
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Condition: Buy a brand new book directly from the publisher. Your book can be personally autographed by the author. If this is a gift, the author can personalize the message. Many libraries and schools are purchasing this inspiring book for their athletes. Its motivating message fits all sports.
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Book Description
If you ever played high school football, or had a brother or a son that played, you will enjoy reading, 'No Quitters Here.' It's a heart-warming story about high school football and the power of a dream. Players from this mid-Michigan high school would not compromise their goal to play in the Pontiac Silverdome; a place where dreams come true and State Championships are won. Their quest created a ten-year winning streak that was held together, at times, by a fine thread. But teams never quit as an invisible torch was passed from one season to the next. Read about their bizarre superstitions, accompanied by fears of jinxing their precious streak. Football helped players endure the tough times. Chapters are packed with emotion from the ultimate highs to the disappointing lows. Fans watched them play on Friday nights unaware of their serious challenges: mono, car accidents, broken bones, career ending surgeries, fathering babies, being busted for drinking, step-parents, no parents and parents that died. Players exposed their egos and developed a camaraderie that created a strong sense of family and painful good-byes. You'll laugh with them, cry with them, and come to understand how their high school football experience impacted their lives, as well as their futures.
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Northwood University January 21, 2004
"I'm currently using the book 'No Quitters Here' as a requirement for a psychology class that I'm teaching at Northwood University. My students are enjoying the story and the chapter titles generate interesting discussion points about life skills (Respect, Belief, Effort, Perseverance, Courage, Integrity, Preparation and Obstacles). The student feedback is wonderful! I use the quotes in each chapter to begin every class period. It's a very inspiring story."
 Good Book January 1, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this was a great book, using the seasons to show how this amazing program was able to use hard work and dedication to turn intself into a championship team.
No Quitters Here: Quest for the Dome October 16, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book describes in detail the feelings of young men that strive for a goal. They, like in adult life, are frustrated by the pitfalls that we all face. Bad luck, bad timing, the unexpected and the unexplained. Yet, they push on to achieve a goal that has seemed so unatainable. Ten years later, after which time many who started the quest are grown men, the goal is achieved.
This is a story of boys growing into men, and a community who were always there for them. It is about families who witnessed failure time and time again and saw their sons never give up. It is a story of Team and the way it is spelled. Without the "I."As a career educator, I could relate to the disappointments and the success. I enjoyed this book so very much that I had to see this town, this school and this High School Football team for myself. I drove from Florence, Kentucky to Montrose, Michigan to watch The Montrose Rams play a Friday night football game in the rain. I was not disappointed. The Town, school and team were everything the book said it was. They had pride, tradition and a spirit that I wish could be bottled.
It was the best book about sports I have ever read.
Ms. Woodward has truely captured the pride and spirit that should make up a winning tradition. Here is a story of a group of young men who achieve a goal through hard work and dedication. Yes, it is about football, but the lessons taught in the book, mainly hard work and dedication are what education and life are about. That is indeed what really builds self esteem.
No quiters here October 9, 2003
As a Montrose graduate and a follower of the Montrose Football program, this book filled in stories that only people on the inside could appreciate until this book came out. Being a Friday night football fan and a saturday morning sports reader you really never understand what goes into a program like Montrose to make it so successful. This book not only tells the stories of a generation of success, but gets to the hearts of players, coaches and a town. Even if you are not from Montrose or the area I think people will enjoy this book, because there are thousands of small towns like Montrose that every friday in the fall come together as a community to route on their own champions dreaming for that quest of being called state champions.
An Excellent Read August 13, 2003
I have read a few books about high school athletics before like "Friday Night Lights" about the football team from Odessa, Texas and "The Last Shot" about the basketball team from Coney Island, NY which included future NBA star Stephon Marbury. In my opinion "No Quitters Here" offers just as much insight into the high school athletic experience as those books. What I like more about "No Quitters Here" is that each season is its own chapter with its own stars and cast of characters, yet each chapter is undeniably linked.
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