At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.
LOU HOLTZWhen I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed.
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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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See, winners embrace hard work.
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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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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!
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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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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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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
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I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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