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 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.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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 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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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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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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I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.
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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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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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The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.
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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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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 think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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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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We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
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Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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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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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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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
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