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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

Lou Holtz

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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
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
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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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We aren't where we want to be we aren't where we ought to be but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
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If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
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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 - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
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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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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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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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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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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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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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