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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

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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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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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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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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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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The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
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So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?
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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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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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You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.
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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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After winning, most teams become individuals most teams become complacent.
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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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