Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Lou Holtz Pep Talks

Florida Gators

*Happiness is nothing more than having a poor memory. If you can't remember what happened yesterday, you feel pretty good today.

Nebraska Cornhuskers

*The time to worry is before you place your bet, not after they spin the wheel.
*We can solve any problem if enough people care. We solved sexism, racism, and well solve (this problem).
* Ask yourself this question- If I didn't show up, who would miss me and why?

Penn State Nittany Lions

*Feel no pressure. Pressure is when you have to do something you're not prepared to do. If you got to make a four foot putt or take a test and you're not prepared, you're scared you're nervous, you think of failure. But if you prepared, you want to be there...this team is totally prepared.
*(They'll be X people in the stands) but remember this- they're unarmed. And they'll remain in the stands for the entire duration of the game. They'll have absolutely no impact on this game whatsoever.
*People say why is it so hard to (be the away team)? Because they'll come a critical time in during the course of a game, when if your not confident and you're not competitive, you're intimidated and you need the crowd to encourage you. But if you're winners and competitors you don't care...
*Everybody wants to win, but the great teams expect to win, and thats us.
*If you settle for second place when first is available, you'll do it the rest of your life.

LSU Tigers
*Congratulations you made it to number. Let me tell you what happens when you're #1, you get content, you want people to tell you how good you are.
*Everybody needs 4 things in this world: Something to do/something to be passionate about, something to love, something to believe in, and most importantly we need something to hope for.
*It doesn'r matter how good or bad you are. All that matters is how good you want to be.
*There's a rule in life that says you're either growing or you're dying. So is a business, so is a plant, so is a team, so is a person. And it has everything to do with answering the question- Am I content where I am or am I trying to get better?
*We don't need to be the best (person/team) in the (Country/state/tournament) but we better be better than (the person, team) that's standing in front of us.


South Florida

*You can be proud of what you've accomplished, but you can't be content.
*We're alot like the bumble bee. Everybody said the bumble bee can't fly, by all aeronautical standards because its body is too big and it's wingspan is too short. But fortunately the bumble bee can't read, so it flys all over.
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Oklahoma State Cowboys

Kansas

*(We're successful) not because we didnt have problems and obstacles, but because we solved them. We didnt wallow in self-pity.
*We didnt everybody how rocky the seas was, we just brought in the ship. We didnt tell the people the horse was by them, we just loaded the wagon. And we didnt procrastinate. When people asked us how to spell Mississippi we didnt answer- the river or the state.
*You don't get ahead of anybody by trying to get even with them.
*I'm only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. That which I can do, I ought to do. That that I ought to do, by the grace of God I'm going to do.

Michigan - Wolverines

*Nothings as good as they seem, and they're not as bad as they seem. But somewhere in between there reality falls.
*We can't change the past, but we can control the future.
*We can not allow (team/person) to beat us twice in a row. They beat us last week, can allow them to beat us again because were wallowing in self-pity thinking about what we should've done last (time).
*Remember the good Lord put eyes in front of your head, not the back, so you can see where you're going and not where you've been.
*When things go wrong the only friends you have in this world are the people you eat with, sleep with, bleed with, pray with, and cry with. And thats your family and your teammates- we have to be a family, it doesn't mean we have the same last name or address, it means we don't let one another down.


Ohio State Buckeyes

*A man who refuses to be blocked cannot be blocked. If you're in an insane asylum and a wildman goes berzerk, it takes 7-10 people to hold him down.
*If not me, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?

New York Knicks (?!)

*When you're in a hole the first rule is to stop digging.
*They can name you the (manager/coach/captain) because titles come from above. But they cannot name you the leader because the team determines that.

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