When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
LOU HOLTZIn golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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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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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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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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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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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
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I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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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’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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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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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’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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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
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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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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
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See, winners embrace hard work.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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