A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.
LOU HOLTZI may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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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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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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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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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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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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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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I don’t exercise.
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I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest.
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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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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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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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