If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
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.
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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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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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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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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
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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 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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I don’t exercise.
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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 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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
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See, winners embrace hard work.
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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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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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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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