Lou Holtz Quotes

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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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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

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Show me a successful coach, a successful anything, and I'm going to show you somebody who has overcome adversity.

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Never take your attitude for granted. Reevaluate yourself continually to ensure you are maintaining your edge.

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Never bet against anyone who is committed to excellence.

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What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.

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Never be overly critical of an individual's performance. First, find out why he or she failed.

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Once you've established your good name, maintain it. Never blemish it with a misdeed or false word.

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There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

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You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

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So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?

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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 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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If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

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