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Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

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Lou Holtz
Age: 88
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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Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
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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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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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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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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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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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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
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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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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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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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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.
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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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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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