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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

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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
Leadership
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Sports
Helping
Foremost
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Caring
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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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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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
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Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
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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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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.
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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.
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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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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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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here. Excuses were not an option.
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We aren't where we want to be we aren't where we ought to be but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
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