"A Season of Life" is a book written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Jeffrey Marx. Marx profiles the 2001 football season for Gilman High School in Maryland. One of Gilman's assistant coaches is Joe Ehrmann, a former Baltimore Colt and now a minister. Marx shows how Ehrmann and the rest of the Gilman coaching staff use their roles to lead their players into becoming much more than football players but most importantly, men. Marx writes about many of the discussions he and Ehrmann had during the season. In one of these discussions, Ehrmann gives his take on leadership...
"It's gotta be based on some kind of moral, ethical foundation. You can't just go with the flow in life. There's a broad road and a narrow road, and you have to learn how to courageously stand up on some kind of foundation, some kind of principle, make decisions, be a leader, and go that way. It takes great courage to lead in the right direction...and especially at the age of the boys on our football team. In the midst of all of the peer pressure, the whole social setting, it takes tremendous courage to stick to the right values because they're often gonna find themselves at odds with the rest of their peer group."
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