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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
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West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
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An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.
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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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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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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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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.
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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.
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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 and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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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 ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
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