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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
American Football Player
Football Coach
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West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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After winning, most teams become individuals most teams become complacent.
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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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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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It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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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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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
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The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
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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 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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