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Coach Lou Holtz Remembered: Faith, Football, and Personal Growth · D-constructing Topics

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  Topic Podcast And we got a good one A little short one, good one,
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  I am very aware to my beautiful ladies, women out there listening to my podcast.
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  It is the Woman's Month History. Let's go.
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  So today is going to be a little sidetracked. So shout out to my beautiful,
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  beautiful woman out there.
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  I'll definitely believe we'll be doing a lot of beautiful podcasts in regards
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  to Woman's History Month.
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  But today I just want to get something where a little personal,
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  a little something, something thing is very rare when I kind of touch bases
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  when someone passes away,
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  whether it's at whatever the platform they're in, it's very rare when I talk
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  about it here on my podcast.
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  If I'm not mistaken, maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm wrong, but you know, just what I'm saying.
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  I just want to touch bases because it is something kind of endearing to me,
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  and it's the passing of the legendary football coach who coached many teams,
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  many teams out there, and one of the teams that Lou Holt,
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  coach with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Let's go.
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  Let's go. So welcome to my podcast and my peoples out there.
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  Once again, shout out to Women History Month. I got you, ladies.
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  I got you, my beautiful woman. There's a lot to talk about.
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  It's always going to be 24-7, 365, 12 months that I could talk about the history of women.
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  But we're going to focus a little bit in March. So we will be doing that.
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  And I say we, Deconstructing Topic Podcast, and you out there,
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  my legend of people that are listening.
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  But today is just one of those things that I just want to kind of say.
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  Lou Holtz, which is the legendary. And if you're not a football fan,
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  please listen, because this is going to be good.
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  And as a matter of fact, let me tell you this quote by Lou Holtz,
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  because this gentleman, I tell you, this gentleman, I don't know what to tell you.
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  But I'm going to tell you why am I doing a podcast on him.
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  And he just passed away a couple of days ago at the age of 89.
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  So to tell you about Lou Holtz once again, and I'm hoping that you are listening.
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  I'm pretty sure you're listening to the podcast now.
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  We're going to start with one of the quotes that he said. Your wife is not your
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  best friend. Your dog is.
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  Lock the two in the back of a trunk. Come back two hours later and see which one is happy to see you.
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  Wow. I tell you, that's Coach Lou Holtz in a nutshell.
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  He was a man of faith in Jesus Christ.
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  And I'm going to talk about that as well. And he was also someone who wanted to inspire a young kid.
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  That's why he did the college football, but, you know, a lot of college football
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  thing going on because that's what he was looking for.
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  What a great person. I tell you, Lou Holtz. Oh, my goodness.
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  And I'm going to say why is this very endearing, this individual,
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  because he is, was a coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
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  When I started watching college football, when I started kind of opening up
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  to the sports, and that was back in 1990, 1991.
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  Those two years that I recall, that's being my point of interest when I was
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  more aware of sports and Notre Dame was the place to be where for me, let's go.
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  And Lou Holtz was the coach of Notre Dame and he did a great job.
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  My understanding is that he is the coach, the last coach that led us to a national
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  championship title when we won. So make it happen.
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  I mean, Freeman, Marcus Freeman, let's go. He's doing a great job.
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  I'm pretty sure we'll get there. Let's go. But today I'm going to say why.
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  Growing up, especially in a single household, shout out to my mother,
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  single mother, shout out, shout out.
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  Let's go to all my single mothers out there and single parents in general,
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  but we are talking about the Women's History Month.
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  Shout out to many, many of these women that have to do things on their own and
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  play the two roles of a mother and a father in a sense.
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  So sometimes what happens is this is, and it's on both sides of the aisle,
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  but especially sometimes with a boy or a male is that sometimes when we don't
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  grow up with a father, and this is a lot of people,
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  and sometimes when we don't grow up with a positive male role model,
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  in the case of me not having a father, I did gravitate into a couple of,
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  listen to a couple of male teachers,
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  but once again, you kind of miss something, you know what I'm saying?
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  And again, a shout out to my mother here, I'm here, you know what I mean,
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  doing this podcast, but sometimes we tend to, in life wanting to,
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  in a sense, gravitate as a man or as a young boy, gravitate to a positive male figure.
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  And for some reason, I started watching a lot of sports because I grew up in
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  a, hey, listen, I grew up in the Bronx, the boogie down.
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  And I grew up in many of these hoods in the Bronx. Love the Bronx. Beautiful plates.
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  How many of you knew your Yankees, botanical, hip hop, all that.
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  Bronx Zoo. Let's go. I'm just saying.
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  I grew up in an area where drugs and all this, Mount Haven, you already know.
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  And my escape always been.
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  And in this case, young Puerto Rican kid who born in Puerto Rico,
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  for some reason, comes to the United States and within years fall in love with
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  football, American football.
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  So Notre Dame is a place I gravitate in Lujo.
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  And for some reason, being that I, again, I don't know if I could say that I
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  was in need of a positive male figure or someone to look up to.
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  You know, I'm young to feel that if that's what I need, but subconsciously.
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  And Lil Hose, for some reason, I gravitated to him and watching the Notre Dame
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  football and NBC when they play at Notre Dame Stadium.
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  They show these games on NBC and I tuned in. And, you know, there was a clip
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  of Notre Dame talking to his boys in the locker room and so on,
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  giving that little pep talk. And it energizes me.
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  But it captivated me. I see this young Puerto Rican who grew up in a Christian
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  household with a single mother, again, growing up in an area that was drunk and fenced.
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  I mean, you know, South Bronx, my haven, you already know.
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  Google my haven in the 80s, 90s. You're going to be like, eh,
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  that is United States of America to you.
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  But I'm saying now things are a little bit better out there in my haven.
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  But just once again, the fact that I gravitated.
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  And I remember Lou Holtz giving a speech to, you know, these young boys like,
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  hey, listen, we got to make happen, whatever it is.
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  And he's a, you know, small, you know, slim guy. And then talking to these,
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  you know, big kids out there. And then you see them just listening.
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  And one of the things that Lou Holtz and I remember Lou Holtz and I'll tell you another quote here.
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  Want to be happy for an hour? Eat a steak. Want to be happy for a day? Play golf.
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  Want to be happy for a week? Go on a cruise. Want to be happy for a lifetime?
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  Put your faith in Jesus Christ. And that was Lou Holtz.
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  And he, for the most part, find a way he's a man of Christian faith.
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  Put Jesus Christ in the lives of these young kids and everywhere, everyone.
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  And these are things that resonated with me because it's like,
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  wow, there is hope. Maybe, maybe this is a model that I could follow and keep
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  about it. Let me see, 10, 11 years old at that time.
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  So just to have an idea, like to have a figure, and again,
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  you know, it's a little hard to navigate because sometimes in that time,
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  you know, with all that's going on, especially what's around you that,
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  you know, those male figures, either they drinking,
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  either they are on drugs or so on and so on. in there.
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  Listen, I came across plumbers, teachers, you know, positive male figures that were doing something.
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  At that time, I was young, so I was not going to Manhattan or anything like
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  that to see the different life.
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  Obviously, as you get older, I got older, and then, you know,
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  it's a different, but just the fact that you're here in this little spectrum,
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  and you yearn for that positive male role model.
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  And again, I was indeed surrounded by male figures, but, you know,
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  A lot of them lack something that you'd be like, okay, so you want me to do
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  this, but then you're on drugs?
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  I'm just saying, hey, listen, stuff happened.
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  Even lawyers back then, heroin was a thing. Everybody was doing something,
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  regardless of what your profession is.
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  So every Saturday when Notre Dame play, the Notre Dame Stadium,
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  I'll tune in, whether it's 12 p.m., 3 p.m., or in the night,
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  I'll tune in and watch my Notre Dame, watch my boys.
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  When I see Notre Dame now, I see, watch my boys, let's go.
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  And just listening to Lou Hodes, and there's a thing.
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  And I was talking to people that I'm surrounded by, and I said to one of the
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  things that he said, life is
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  10% what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it. And it is true.
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  I always say, look, if we grab 10 things, 10 days, nine out of the 10 days are going to be bad days.
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  What are you going to do with that one day that's good? What are you going to do?
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  You're going to, you know, just cry. You know, you're going to feel like, man, I can, I can.
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  On the one day that you're supposed to wake up and you kind of say to yourself,
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  hey, listen, I'm grateful to have woken up and to be alive.
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  And Lou Hose, you know, kind of gave you that thing because,
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  listen, A lot of times this dish,
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  Once again I go to a Lou Holtz quote Your talent determines What you can do,
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  Your motivations determine How much you're willing to do Your attitude determines How well you do it,
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  And that's great. And that's one of the things that I've, one of the reasons
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  why I created this podcast is to pep up people and, hey, listen,
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  sometimes my words are just my words. I'm all about action too.
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  But exactly what are you doing? You know, what exactly are you doing that you're
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  going to say to yourself, hey?
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  And sometimes when we feel overwhelmed, once again, hit you with another quote.
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  It's not the law that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it.
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  Meaning that when, you know, we all going to have, We all going to,
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  at one point, are going to complain about we have too much.
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  What does that mean? You can't let that break down. You can't let that determine,
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  oh, man, I'm too busy. I'm too this. But guess what?
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  How you carry, how you conduct yourself, whatever it is that you do,
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  that when you have all this on
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  your plate, it's what's going to determine what's going to happen to you.
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  When all is said and done, more is said than done, right?
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  I just mentioned that That alluded that day Listen That's why I got a podcast
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  Trying to pet people But at the same time Got to put in work,
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  I could only guide you there, and for me, as this young kid at that age,
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  and again, I always believe that everything happens for a reason,
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  and sometimes we in life put people, God, Jesus Christ,
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  you know, they put people in your path, whether it's good, bad,
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  you know, we learn something.
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  Sadly, some people don't learn anything, because they don't know what the hell,
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  you know, who is this person right here next to me, oh, who are you,
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  to tell me, you know, this and that. you're a young person, or you don't have
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  experience, or you don't have that.
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  No, no, we all going to learn something from each other.
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  And that's always that thing where I'm trying to show people that,
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  hey, listen, when you wake up, just waking up in something where that in itself
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  is the motivation, it's the discipline.
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  Another quote, don't ever promise more than you can deliver,
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  but always deliver more than you can promise.
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  In the context of this podcast you're listening to my podcast and i could pep
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  you up i could do i could i could just stick and just doing some motivational
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  stuff but again am i resonating with you perhaps my words perhaps but i want to be clear to you.
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  You have to put that part as well. You have to become. And without that self-discipline,
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  success is impossible, period.
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  And one of the things that, once again, that we have an issue is that,
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  listen, as Lou Holtz was saying, this is just me giving you why people ask me, damn, it's, you know.
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  Deconstructing type of podcast is a different type of cat.
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  One of the things that Lou Holtz says, I never learned anything by talking.
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  And I only learn things when I ask questions.
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  And don't be afraid to ask. Don't be afraid to say this.
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  Listen, I know that sometimes you don't want to talk about your problems.
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  And then, listen, I get and I hear that on both sides of the aisle.
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  Sometimes it's not good to talk about your problems, which is true.
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  But I'm also in the mindset, as Kobe Bryant said, the art of storytelling.
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  And sometimes you might want to not talk about your problems,
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  but you might want to tell a story or two.
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  And perhaps there's someone listening, which is key there.
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  And perhaps there's someone that's there for you. And perhaps you never know,
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  because sometimes in life, when we have faith and we have faith in Jesus Christ,
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  you already know that when we have faith, we just wake up and say,
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  thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, Lord.
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  And we are grateful to be here. And what you do, is that what you do in your
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  hands? Like I always say, what's in your hands?
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  And you help that fellow person that might need it more than you do.
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  And just follow these three rules. Do the right thing. Do the best you can.
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  And always show people you care.
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  You got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with.
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  Then go after them with the appropriate effort. And remember that you can't
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  really achieve anything great without the help of others.
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  Amen? Absolutely. All right, my folks.
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  And I'm glad that you listened to this podcast. All the information is out there. Coach Lou Holtz.
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  Lou Holtz at the age of 89. Once again, former coach of Notre Dame,
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  legendary coach, coached many things.
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  He coached, I'm pretty sure he'll be coaching on some team in heaven or something
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  to that effect. But God bless his soul, his family and so on.
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  And just find a way to have faith. We could make it happen together.
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  We could always make it happen.
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  Have that faith and continue to have faith. All right. God bless you all.
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  Make it happen. I'm out of here.
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  We making it happen. I'm out of here. Peace.