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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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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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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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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
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You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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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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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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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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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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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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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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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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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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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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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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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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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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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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