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I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

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
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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