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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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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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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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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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Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
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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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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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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 freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
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You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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