Lou Holtz Quotes
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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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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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
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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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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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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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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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We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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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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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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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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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.
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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
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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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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz
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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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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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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?