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A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

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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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Winning
People
Elimination
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I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
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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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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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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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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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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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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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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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.
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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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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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