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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

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 answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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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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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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