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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
American Football Player
Football Coach
Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
Louis Holtz
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If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
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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 bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
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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 do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
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An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.
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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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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
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