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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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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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.
Lou Holtz
Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
Lou Holtz
All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
Lou Holtz
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 my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.
Lou Holtz
I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
Lou Holtz
It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
Lou Holtz
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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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz
I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
Lou Holtz
They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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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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Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
Lou Holtz
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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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
Lou Holtz
To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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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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