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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

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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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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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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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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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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Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
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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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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
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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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Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
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