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!
LOU HOLTZI 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.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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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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If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
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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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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
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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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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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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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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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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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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