Lou Holtz Quotes, Wall Quotes, Winning Quotes

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

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Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?

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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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I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

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I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

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

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After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

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I give opinions, not advice.

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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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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

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No, but you can see it from here.

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Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

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Football coaches don't have real problems.

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What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

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Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

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