Lou Holtz Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Team Quotes

A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

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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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Never settle for second when first is available

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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.

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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

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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.

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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

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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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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize 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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You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.

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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

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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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Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

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