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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
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Louis Leo Holtz
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest remain free from drugs and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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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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The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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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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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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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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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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