Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
LOU HOLTZThe second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
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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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Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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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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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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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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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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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.
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The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.
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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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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.
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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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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
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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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Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
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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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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
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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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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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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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