Lou Holtz Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
-
A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
-
I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
-
Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
-
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
-
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
-
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
-
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
-
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
-
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
-
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
-
I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
-
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
-
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
-
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
-
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
-
I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.
-
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
-
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
-
Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete and less likely to repeat the same mistakes.
-
There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.
-
I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.
-
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
-
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.
