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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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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
Louis Holtz
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Least
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
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So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?
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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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I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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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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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
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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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After winning, most teams become individuals most teams become complacent.
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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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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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