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Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

Lou Holtz

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
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West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
Louis Holtz
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No, but you can see it from here.
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After winning, most teams become individuals most teams become complacent.
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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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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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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
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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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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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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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