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.
LOU HOLTZI think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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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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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 won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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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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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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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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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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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 look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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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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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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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.
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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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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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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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If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
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We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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