I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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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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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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Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.
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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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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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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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For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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