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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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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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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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I feel that God wants me to coach otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
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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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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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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 used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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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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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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After winning, most teams become individuals most teams become complacent.
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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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