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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
American Football Coach
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Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
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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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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
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All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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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 don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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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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You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.
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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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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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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time. It doesn't seem that hard to me.
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
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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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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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