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No Surrender
Nobody gets a pass; we all get worked over sometimes. You simply have to fight your way through adversity if you want to prosper.

As a former high school teacher, I like to speak to students across the country and one of the most common questions I get is: What does it take to succeed in life? And my answer is very simple: Hard work and perseverance. I know it's a cliché, but it's a good cliché.

One year ago, New York Giants football coach Tom Coughlin was on the ropes. His team had underperformed, his star player, Tiki Barber, had quit—partially because he didn't much like Coughlin—and the New York media was pounding the coach into pudding every hour on the hour.

I mean, it was bad.

Watching from a distance, I felt sorry for Coughlin. I've seen public figures get hammered, but this was brutal.

Sportswriters were digging his grave and dancing on it at the same time. There weren't enough negative adjectives in the universe to describe the man.

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Here are some of the big stories and guests coming up* on The Radio Factor and The O'Reilly Factor:

• Why has a county in Texas laid out over $588 million for medical services for legal and illegal immigrants? We'll investigate...
• We'll be covering the political primaries with our experts, including Dick Morris and Juan Williams...
• We'll have a very special American TV icon on Friday, January 25--the late great stunt rider Evil Knievel...

* Lineups and schedules are always subject to change based on breaking news.

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