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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.

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
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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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 think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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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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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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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 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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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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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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