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 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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Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
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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 look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
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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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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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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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I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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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’m no genius.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
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All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
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