I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
LOU HOLTZWe receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.
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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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If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
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Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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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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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’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 made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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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.
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After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
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