Lou Holtz Quotes
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.
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All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
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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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One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.
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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
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You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.
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If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
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I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.
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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.
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You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
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If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.
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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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Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.