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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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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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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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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
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Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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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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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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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
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Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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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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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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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from 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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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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We aren't where we want to be we aren't where we ought to be but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
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If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
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