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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
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Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
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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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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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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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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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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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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.
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I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
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It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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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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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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Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
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After winning, most teams become individuals most teams become complacent.
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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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God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
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