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You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.

Lou Holtz

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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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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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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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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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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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A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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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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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?
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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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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
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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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No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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