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.
LOU HOLTZSuccessful 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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We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and 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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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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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I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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 do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
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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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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
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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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Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.
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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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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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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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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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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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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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