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.
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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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.
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On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
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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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ESPN is a great organization to work for.
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I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
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To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word.
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I give opinions, not advice.
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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
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All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
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I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
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If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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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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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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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 also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest.
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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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I’m no genius.
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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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When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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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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