I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
LOU HOLTZI believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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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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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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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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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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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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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 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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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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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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