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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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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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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
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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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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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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.
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
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In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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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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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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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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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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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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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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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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