I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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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 believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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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 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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
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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 man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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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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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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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
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I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
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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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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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Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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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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