You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
LOU HOLTZWe were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
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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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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 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 agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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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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You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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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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How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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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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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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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
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