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.
LOU HOLTZSee, winners embrace hard work.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year.
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God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
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See, winners embrace hard work.
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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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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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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.
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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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