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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

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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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You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.
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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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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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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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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
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Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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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 not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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