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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.

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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Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
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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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I feel that God wants me to coach otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Broadcasting is easy you just talk until you think of something to say.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
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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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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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We aren't where we want to be we aren't where we ought to be but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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After winning, most teams become individuals most teams become complacent.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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