Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
LOU HOLTZFootball coaches don’t have real problems.
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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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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I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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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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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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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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How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
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We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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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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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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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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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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