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.’
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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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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I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.
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I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.
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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
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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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The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely.
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
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Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
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Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.
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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win.
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