One Yard Short: Turning Your Defeats into Victories

Coach Les Steckel understands that life is difficult. It's marked by disappointments and defeats. But what's important is what you do with those defeats. One Yard Short is the amazing story of Les Steckel. A coach for 32 years, with 23 of those seasons coaching in the NFL, Steckel has been through his shares of ups and downs, having experienced the pain and disappointment of job loss time and time again in a way that only professional sports coaches know.

A lesser man would have given up and become bitter, but in the midst of each disappointment, each "failure," God was there, picking him up, dusting him off, telling Coach Steckel that He believed in him and that there was a special plan for his life. In One Yard Short, Coach Steckel teaches readers through his own life lessons and football experiences how to hear God's voice in the midst of disappointments and failures.

The national president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Les Steckel's football coaching career includes twenty-three years in the NFL. He and his wife, Chris, live in the Kansas City area.

Rob Suggs is a writer, editor, and artist. He is the author of My First Rhyming Bible, The Comic Book Bible, It Came From Beneath the Pew, and a number of other books. He is a former senior editor for Walk Thru the Bible. Rob, his wife, Gayle, and their two children reside in Atlanta, Georgia.