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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz
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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
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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?
Lou Holtz
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
Lou Holtz
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 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.
Lou Holtz
If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
Lou Holtz
I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
Lou Holtz
It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.
Lou Holtz
The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
Lou Holtz
One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
Lou Holtz
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz
First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
Lou Holtz
One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
Lou Holtz
If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
Lou Holtz
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou Holtz
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.
Lou Holtz
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz
Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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