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 HOLTZI follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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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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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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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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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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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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’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win.
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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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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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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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