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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
Football Coach
Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
Louis Holtz
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