Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
LOU HOLTZI used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.
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I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.
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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country.
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If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
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