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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz
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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
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West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
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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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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
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After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here. Excuses were not an option.
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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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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
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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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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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How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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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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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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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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We aren't where we want to be we aren't where we ought to be but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by
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No, but you can see it from here.
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