Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz
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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.
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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
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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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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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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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Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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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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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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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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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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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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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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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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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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Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.
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If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.