RIP Lou Holtz

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A former high school teammate of mine who played for Lou at Minnesota just posted the following about The Law According to Lou they were taught:

What I learned from Louis that changed my life in. Positive way.


1. The most powerful ability I possess is the ability to choose.


2. Having a goal in life helps you make right choices. If something can possibly help you reach your goal, do it. If something can possibly hurt your chances of reaching your goal, don’t do it.


Learn to play the odds in life.


Do everything you possibly can to put the odds of you winning in your favor.


3.Do what’s right all the time, every day, … the very moment you choose to do something wrong, something that you know isn’t right, at that moment you just made a conscious decision to get your ass beat!

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adam.vol said:
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Lou didn’t come up with that. Lou was like the OG re-tweet or meme post. He spoke in mostly others peoples quotes.
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as do many others...not sure if adding a twist makes yours or not but neither get credit here

Quote Origin: Don’t Tell Yer Trouble to Others. Most of ‘Em Don’t Care a Hang; an’ the Rest Are Damn Glad of It – Quote Investigator®

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In 1939 Robert Haven Schauffler credited an unnamed mariner with the saying under examination as mentioned previously:

“Don’t tell yer trouble to others,” a Nantucket sea-captain advised me. “Most of ’em don’t care a hang; an’ the rest are damn glad of it.”
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In 1885 a Vermont newspaper reprinted a thematically pertinent poem from “Harper’s Weekly” titled “Nobody Really Cares” by Margaret Eytinge. The following was the final stanza:2

This world is fond of pleasure,
And, take it at its best,
‘Tis sadly bored unless you
Meet it with smile and jest;
It yawns o’er want’s complainings,
At sorrow coldly stares,
So never tell your troubles, for
Nobody really cares.
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What made those seasons even more remarkable was what preceded them. The 1999 football season — Holtz’s first leading the Gamecocks — was arguably the worst in program history, a winless 0-11 campaign with 10 double-digit defeats.

“Records can be deceiving,” Holtz would later tell people about that 0-11 season. “We really weren’t as good as our record would lead you to believe.”

 
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WillisWG said:
as do many others...not sure if adding a twist makes yours or not but neither get credit here

Quote Origin: Don’t Tell Yer Trouble to Others. Most of ‘Em Don’t Care a Hang; an’ the Rest Are Damn Glad of It – Quote Investigator®

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In 1939 Robert Haven Schauffler credited an unnamed mariner with the saying under examination as mentioned previously:



In 1885 a Vermont newspaper reprinted a thematically pertinent poem from “Harper’s Weekly” titled “Nobody Really Cares” by Margaret Eytinge. The following was the final stanza:2
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Thank you! I was looking to see where that may have originated. I had more trouble than I could have expected, thanks to Google’s algorithm.

I am concerned that the internet may become less reliable than any old library at the rate the search engines have regressed.
 
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