No Quitters Here: Quest for the Dome

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Summary: Northwood University
Review: "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."

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Summary: Northwood University
Review: "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."

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Summary: No quiters here
Review: 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.

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Summary: Very accurate account of HS football
Review: Being one of the characters mentioned in the book i can honestly say that the stories that were told about the years that i was involved in was very accurate. Not many books or movies that pertain to high school football are very accurate or realistic. This is a real story about an incredible H.S. football program that went through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. I am very proud to be a part of the book and anyone who reads the book will have a different appreciation for high school football players.

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Summary: An Excellent Read
Review: 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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Summary: No Quitters Here: Quest for the Dome
Review: 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.

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Summary: Quick Opinion
Review: This book is nothing more then a game by game summary of their past 10 seasons, with little stories about players along the way. The book advertises a kid who fathers a baby, but its mentioned maybe two times in the book in little paragraphs. The book becomes redundant by page 100, where each new season summary sounds the same as the season just past. The author is clearly routing for Montrose thoughout the book obvioulsy and rarley admits when they clearly lost. The book is a good read as a novel, seeming fictional at times since the teams were so good. Montrose is a great team and i congradulate them on their success.

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Summary: What a spectacular read!
Review: This book is packed with so much information and excitement! I couldn't wait to turn the page and read more. No Quitters here is definately a hard book to put down. It made me laugh, it made me cry, but most of all it opened my eyes and gave a whole new appreciation and respect for the game of Football.