Lou Holtz Quotes
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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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A player has no use for an agent. None.
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.
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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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Football coaches don't have real problems.
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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
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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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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.
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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz