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Urban Meyer Preaches Leadership, Clarity of Purpose, Respect at 84th Annual Ohio State Football Clinic

Urban Meyer knows the page number by heart. He knows a lot of things by heart.

In this book, though, lies something that precedes any football practice, game, coach, player or fan.

This is about life.

"On page 15 of ‘Lone Survivor,’ the book, right on the top. I've read that son of a gun hundreds of times," Meyer said Friday at the 84th Annual Ohio State Football Coaches Clinic. "Whenever I want to re-motivate myself and re-organize myself for spring practice, for offseason, I'll do it again this summer, I turn to that page 15 and here's what an elite soldier says: 'The clarity of purpose is inspirational.