I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
LOU HOLTZYou’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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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 look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
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I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
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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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God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
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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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Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
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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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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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