I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
LOU HOLTZSuccessful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
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I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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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.
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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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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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