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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

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
Suicide
Murder
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Time

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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time. It doesn't seem that hard to me.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry 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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No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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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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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
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In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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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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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by
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