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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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Perform
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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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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
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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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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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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
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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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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
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