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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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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
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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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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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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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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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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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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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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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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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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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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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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.
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