Undertaker's Son: Life Lessons from a Coach

by Richard "Digger" Phelps

Book Overview

Head basketball coach of Notre Dame at age 29, a position he held for more than two decades with a 100 percent graduation rate, an attention-getting figure in President George H. W. Bush's anti-drug... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599212099
• ISBN13: 9781599212098
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Johnny V

This is not a basketball book although there are many entertaining stories of Digger's two decades at ND...It's about a man who has a passion for makeing this planet a better place when it's his time to leave...He believes in "giving back" had has donated much of his time as well as money to make "life" for others better....all proceeds go to Katernia victims...

Great book!

The is a wonderful book - part memoir and part practical advice on living - from a sports icon! And you don't even have to be a Notre Dame basketball fan to enoy it.

undertaker's son

If this were a basketball book I wouldn't have bothered to buy it. It was exactly as promised, life lessons from an American icon. Digger Phelps is so much more than a basketball coach. He's worked for the first President Bush, he served as an election monitor in Cambodia, he's building homes for people still sufering from the effects of Katrina. He learned as an undertaker's son that it's best to do what you have to today, because tommorrow might not come. The book is full of great advice for anyone, not just basketball fans. I read it in one sitting.