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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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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
American Football Player
Football Coach
Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo 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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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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I feel that God wants me to coach otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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