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.
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 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.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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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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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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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
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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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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 truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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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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God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
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