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Lou Holtz
Age: 88
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
American Football Player
Football Coach
Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
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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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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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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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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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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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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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No, but you can see it from here.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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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 Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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