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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: 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've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
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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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If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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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 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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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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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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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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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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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
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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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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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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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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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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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