Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
LOU HOLTZI was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
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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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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
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Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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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 just have an enthusiasm for life.
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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’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
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How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
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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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I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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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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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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I’m no genius.
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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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