I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
LOU HOLTZI’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
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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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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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I don’t exercise.
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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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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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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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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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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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