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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
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West Virginia
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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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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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