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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Lou Holtz

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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I feel that God wants me to coach otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
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An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
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A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
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The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
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So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?
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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 don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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