Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
LOU HOLTZI could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
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But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
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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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Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
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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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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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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 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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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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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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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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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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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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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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