Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
-- Lou Holtz
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About the Quote
Things happen to us just one way, and that way is how they happen to us. We can't control that. This is especially true if what happens to us is negative or considered adversity.
However, how we handle that makes a world of difference. Do we let adversity beat us down until we hit the floor in the fetal position and cry for Mommy? Do we run away after we get punched in the mouth after we spent years talking smack about someone? Dow we stay on the floor after we get knocked down?
One thing we can do is just give up; another thing we can do is run away. If it makes sense to do these things, we do them. However, the proper response is for us to start over or to pick up where we left off, or to stop running away and face our opponent.
Lou Holtz, one of the greatest college football coaches in American history, make the aboe quote. However, the best personification of this quote is a fictional character: Rocky Balboa. His response is to "keep moving forward, because that is how winning is done!"
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Some (More) Information about Lou Holtz
When Ohio State University won the National Championship after the 1968 season, Lou Holtz was hired by his former employers at the College of William & Mary to be head coach of its football program. He led William & Mary to the Southern Conference title and to the Tangerine Bowl.
In 1972 he became head coach of the Wolfpack football program at North Carolina State University. In his 4 seasons coaching NC State, his Won-Loss-Tie record was 33-12-3. His first 3 seasons as NC State head coach featured end-of-season Top 20 rankings. Included in this streak was one end of season Top 10 finish in 1974. In 1973 NC State won the Atlantic Coast Confernece (ACC) Championship. During his 4 seasons coachingthe Wolfpack, NC State appeard in bowl games 4 times.
In 1976, with the success he had in college football, Lou Hotz went professional and became head coach of the New York Jets in the National Football League. Unfortunately for him, the pro game was a different thing from the college game. As a result, Holts resigned as Jets coach with a 3-10-0 record, not even completing one season in the NFL. Lou Holtz himself lamented his switch to the NFL from college football.
When he returned to college football in 1977 as head coach of the Razorbacks program at the University of Arkansas, the winning touch returned for him. In his first season coaching the Razorbacks, Holtz lead the team to a 31-6 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners the 1978 Orange Bowl while several of his key players were unavailable. 6 of his 7 seasons with the Razorbacks ended with bowl game appearances. His W-L-T record over 7 seasons was 60-12-2.
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