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If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

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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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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
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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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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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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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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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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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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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Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
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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.
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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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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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