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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.

Lou Holtz

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
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Follansbee
West Virginia
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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've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
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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 give opinions, not advice.
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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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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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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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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