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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

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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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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
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If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time. It doesn't seem that hard to me.
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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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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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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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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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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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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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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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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
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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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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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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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