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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
Louis Leo Holtz
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
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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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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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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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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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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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