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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

Lou Holtz

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
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West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
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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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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 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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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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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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
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The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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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 bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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No, but you can see it from here.
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You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.
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I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
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