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.
LOU HOLTZI 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.
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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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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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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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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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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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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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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win.
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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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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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I’m no genius.
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I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
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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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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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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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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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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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