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One thing about me is I try to be honest.

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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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
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If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
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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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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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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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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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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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