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.
LOU HOLTZIf you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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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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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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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 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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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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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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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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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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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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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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
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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.
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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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