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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 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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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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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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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
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I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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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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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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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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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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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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No, but you can see it from here.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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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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