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.
LOU HOLTZMy 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.’
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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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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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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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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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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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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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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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 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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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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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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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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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.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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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 truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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