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Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
Lou Holtz
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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
American Football Player
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Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
Louis Holtz
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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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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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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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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.
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You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time. It doesn't seem that hard to me.
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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