I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
LOU HOLTZShow me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
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Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’
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This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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