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.
LOU HOLTZIf you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
More Lou Holtz Quotes
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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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You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
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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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Football coaches don’t have real problems.
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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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Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country.
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I don’t exercise.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.
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