NORMAN, Okla. -- With 19 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country chart, two feature movies and his own record label, Toby Keith leads a pretty spectacular life.

But while the Oklahoma native could probably go anywhere in the country to relax and enjoy a celebrity’s lifestyle, he spends three hours a day, six days a week, showing seventh-graders how to take on pulling guards and sack quarterbacks.

Keith is a member of Whittier Middle School’s seventh-grade football coaching staff in Norman.

"I have always been really, really close to football,” Keith said. “I know some people would be surprised that being a successful songwriter, that they would think he couldn’t coach. But we have been very successful at it."

This is Keith’s first year with the Warriors, but it’s not his first time coaching. His credentials extend to the days before he made it big in the music business.

"It’s a love for me,” Keith said. “The first thing I did when I got through playing with the (semi-pro) Oklahoma City Drillers, I had tryouts with the Oklahoma Outlaws in the USFL. I found out right there what level of player it takes to get to that next level.

"Even though I didn’t have a kid at the time, I ran right out and started coaching little league football. And then when my son came along, I said I will be there at day one. So I just routed my schedule around it.”

Keith’s arrival on the Whittier sidelines is no sign he wants to move up the coaching hierarchy. After coaching his son, Stelen Covel, throughout grade school, he simply wants to stay involved.