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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

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Lou Holtz
Age: 88
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
American Football Player
Football Coach
Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
Louis Holtz
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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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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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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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You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
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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 can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to 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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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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