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Lou Holtz Inspirational Quotes (113)

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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
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I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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After winning, most teams become individuals most teams become complacent.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
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Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.
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Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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