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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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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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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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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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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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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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No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
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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.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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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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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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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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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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