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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Lou Holtz

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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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 don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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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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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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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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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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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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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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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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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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