I just have an enthusiasm for life.
LOU HOLTZAt 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.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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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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Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.
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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.
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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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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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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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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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