My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
LOU HOLTZDon’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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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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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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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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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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Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
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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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You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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