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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
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Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
Louis Holtz
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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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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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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After winning, most teams become individuals most teams become complacent.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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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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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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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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