I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
LOU HOLTZAs 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.
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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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
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I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.
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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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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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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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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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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year.
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
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