I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
LOU HOLTZI 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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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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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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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
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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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My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’
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I’m no genius.
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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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I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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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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All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
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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’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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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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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 can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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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 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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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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