I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
LOU HOLTZAll an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win.
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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 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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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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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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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on 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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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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I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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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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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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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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