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.
LOU HOLTZOne thing about me is I try to be honest.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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’m no genius.
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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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I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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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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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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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’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 believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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See, winners embrace hard work.
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
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