I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
LOU HOLTZGolf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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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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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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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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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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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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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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Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
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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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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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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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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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Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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I don’t exercise.
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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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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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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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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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