A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.
LOU HOLTZMy first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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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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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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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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I’m no genius.
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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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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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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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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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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 don’t exercise.
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This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
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I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
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