I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
LOU HOLTZHad I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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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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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.
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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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When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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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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I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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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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I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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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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We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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