My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year.
LOU HOLTZYou’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.
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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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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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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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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 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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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
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