The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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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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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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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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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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