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" If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. "
Lou Holtz
Better
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" Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me. "
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" In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. "
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" We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera. "
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" When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin. "
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" Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes. "
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" If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody 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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" Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. "
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" Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. "
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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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" No one has ever drowned in sweat. "
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" I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. 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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Know
" Successful 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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" I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. "
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Career
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" When all is said and done, more is said than done. "
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Said
" It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. "
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Breaks
Down
" 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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Week
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" The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage. "
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Am
Doubt
" I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more. "
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Any
Old
More
" I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them. "
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Sometimes
Opportunities
Think
" Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. "
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Someone
Adversity
Done
" If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback. "
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He
" When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be. "
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Die
Forget
Realize
" 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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I Can
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" I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did. "
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Never
Pray
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" I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me. "
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Me
" I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in. "
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Think
" Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. "
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" I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. "
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" Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. "
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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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