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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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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
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Louis Leo Holtz
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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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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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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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You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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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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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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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'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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