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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

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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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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
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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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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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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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I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
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An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.
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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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I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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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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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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I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.
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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 standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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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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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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