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 HOLTZAt age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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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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Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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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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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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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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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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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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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
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