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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

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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
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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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I feel that God wants me to coach otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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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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How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
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Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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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'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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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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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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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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