I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
LOU HOLTZAfter winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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 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.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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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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You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
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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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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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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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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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I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.
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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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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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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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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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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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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 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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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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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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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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