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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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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
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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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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 do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
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I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
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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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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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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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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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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
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If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?
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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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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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Broadcasting is easy you just talk until you think of something to say.
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