When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
LOU HOLTZOur cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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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.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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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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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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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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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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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 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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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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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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I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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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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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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