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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
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West Virginia
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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.
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I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
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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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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
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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 think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?
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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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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're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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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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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
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