Lou Holtz Quotes
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome
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I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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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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Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure
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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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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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Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz
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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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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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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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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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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.
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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
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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 follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.