I’m no genius.
LOU HOLTZI used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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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 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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But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
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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 follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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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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An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
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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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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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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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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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