I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
LOU HOLTZI 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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I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.
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The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously.
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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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You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
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We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.
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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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You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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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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My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.
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We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
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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 the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.
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I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.
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You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
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Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
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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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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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Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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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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We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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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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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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