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.
LOU HOLTZDon’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
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I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
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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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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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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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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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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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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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I don’t exercise.
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I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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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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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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I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course.
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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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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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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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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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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 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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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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