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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Lou Holtz

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
American Football Player
Football Coach
Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
Louis Holtz
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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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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.
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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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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It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by
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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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