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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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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Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
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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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It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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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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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?
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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 just have an enthusiasm for life.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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