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.
LOU HOLTZI 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!
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I give opinions, not advice.
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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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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 am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
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An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
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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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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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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One thing about me is I try to be honest.
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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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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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