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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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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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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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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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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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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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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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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We aren't where we want to be we aren't where we ought to be but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
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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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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 think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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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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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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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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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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