Lou Holtz Quotes
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Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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See, winners embrace hard work.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
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Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.
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You live up - or down - to your expectations.
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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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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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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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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.
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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
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I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.