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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by

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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
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All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
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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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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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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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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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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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The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
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It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.
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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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