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.
LOU HOLTZOne thing about me is I try to be honest.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country.
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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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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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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Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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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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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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