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.
LOU HOLTZI 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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When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.
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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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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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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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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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But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
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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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I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
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I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.
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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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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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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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The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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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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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 just have an enthusiasm for life.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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