Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
LOU HOLTZEverybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.
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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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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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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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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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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win.
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All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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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.
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This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
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My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
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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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