Lou Holtz Quotes
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You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.
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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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Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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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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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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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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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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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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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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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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You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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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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Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.
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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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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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You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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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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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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I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.
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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
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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.